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Cost-effectiveness analysis of current treatment of individuals with acute exacerbation of schizophrenia in Bulgaria
- Source :
- Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment, Vol 33, Iss 1, Pp 204-213 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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Abstract
- Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder which requires complex treatment and care. Although proof for effective, cost-effective and affordable treatment is available, health economic research is lacking in many low and middle-income countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the costs and outcomes for individuals with acute exacerbations of schizophrenia before and after inpatient admission and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the current treatment in the clinical practice. We used an ambispective comparative observational health economic study design. The participants were individuals with schizophrenia and their primary caregivers. Costs at baseline and follow-up were evaluated from a healthcare perspective. The primary outcomes were psychopathology, social functioning and quality of life for the patients and burden of informal care for the caregivers. Cost-effectiveness planes and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves were generated to illustrate the cost-effectiveness of treating schizophrenia in the real clinical practice, compared to a do-nothing alternative. The main finding is that treatment of individuals with schizophrenia results in improved outcomes for both patients and caregivers, while it is associated with increased healthcare costs from 135.75 Euro (SD = 193.36) per patient before hospital treatment to 189.00 Euro (SD = 126.98) per patient in the follow-up (95% CI: −112.48; −2.31). After application of sensitivity analysis at a particular level of willingness to pay, the treatment remains cost-effective for all 4 outcomes. In conclusion, the treatment of patients with schizophrenia in Bulgaria is cost-effective at acceptable levels of willingness to pay for a unit of improvement on four different outcomes.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0303 health sciences
medicine.medical_specialty
Economic research
Exacerbation
business.industry
Cost effectiveness
Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming)
lcsh:Biotechnology
costs
Cost-effectiveness analysis
01 natural sciences
hospital treatment
schizophrenia
03 medical and health sciences
Hospital treatment
lcsh:TP248.13-248.65
medicine
Intensive care medicine
business
cost-effectiveness
health care economics and organizations
030304 developmental biology
010606 plant biology & botany
Biotechnology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13143530 and 13102818
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....434e4a64bfd850257ee35b9cad526a88