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    Testing and Treating Women after Unsuccessful Conservative Treatments for Overactive Bladder or Mixed Urinary Incontinence: A Model-Based Economic Evaluation Based on the BUS Study

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    Goranitis, I; Barton, P; Middleton, LJ; Deeks, JJ; Daniels, JP; Latthe, P; Coomarasamy, A; Rachaneni, S; McCooty, S; Verghese, TS; ...
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    2016-08-11
    Source Title
    PLoS One
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    PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
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    Goranitis, Ilias
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    Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
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    Goranitis, I., Barton, P., Middleton, L. J., Deeks, J. J., Daniels, J. P., Latthe, P., Coomarasamy, A., Rachaneni, S., McCooty, S., Verghese, T. S. & Roberts, T. E. (2016). Testing and Treating Women after Unsuccessful Conservative Treatments for Overactive Bladder or Mixed Urinary Incontinence: A Model-Based Economic Evaluation Based on the BUS Study. PLOS ONE, 11 (8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160351.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/255927
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    10.1371/journal.pone.0160351
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    OBJECTIVE: To compare the cost-effectiveness of bladder ultrasonography, clinical history, and urodynamic testing in guiding treatment decisions in a secondary care setting for women failing first line conservative treatment for overactive bladder or urgency-predominant mixed urinary incontinence. DESIGN: Model-based economic evaluation from a UK National Health Service (NHS) perspective using data from the Bladder Ultrasound Study (BUS) and secondary sources. METHODS: Cost-effectiveness analysis using a decision tree and a 5-year time horizon based on the outcomes of cost per woman successfully treated and cost per Quality-Adjusted Life-Year (QALY). Deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses, and a value of information analysis are also undertaken. RESULTS: Bladder ultrasonography is more costly and less effective test-treat strategy than clinical history and urodynamics. Treatment on the basis of clinical history alone has an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of £491,100 per woman successfully treated and an ICER of £60,200 per QALY compared with the treatment of all women on the basis of urodynamics. Restricting the use of urodynamics to women with a clinical history of mixed urinary incontinence only is the optimal test-treat strategy on cost-effectiveness grounds with ICERs of £19,500 per woman successfully treated and £12,700 per QALY compared with the treatment of all women based upon urodynamics. Conclusions remained robust to sensitivity analyses, but subject to large uncertainties. CONCLUSIONS: Treatment based upon urodynamics can be seen as a cost-effective strategy, and particularly when targeted at women with clinical history of mixed urinary incontinence only. Further research is needed to resolve current decision uncertainty.

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