Cost-effectiveness analysis at the development phase of a potential health technology: Examples based on tissue engineering of bladder and urethra

Helen McAteer, Emma Cosh, Guy Freeman, Anand Pandit, Peter Wood, Richard Lilford

Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

66 Dyfyniadau (Scopus)

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Objectives: We demonstrate the use of health economics to guide investment decisions in regenerative medicine. Our examples are based on proposed tissue engineering applications in the urinary tract. We show that health economics have a role in strengthening the supply side, not just the demand side of the health economy.

Methods: We reviewed the epidemiology and treatment of the clinical conditions where TE of urothelium may be considered using literature identified from a range of sources including electronic databases, article bibliographies and references, online articles and expert opinion in the field.

Results: Careful analysis of current best treatment suggested that urethral defects and bladder resection for cancer offered the most propitious applications of TE. The headroom for engineered urethral tissue was estimated at £186. This is unlikely to be large enough to support the launch of a TE product populated with viable cells. The headroom for TE bladder, on the other hand, was estimated at around £16 268. However, the market size is limited reducing potential profitability.

Conclusions: The Headroom Method can help inform instrumental decisions concerning new treatments without having to build a complex model with very wide parameter uncertainty.
Iaith wreiddiolSaesneg
Tudalennau (o-i)343-349
Nifer y tudalennau7
CyfnodolynJournal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Cyfrol1
Rhif cyhoeddi5
Dynodwyr Gwrthrych Digidol (DOIs)
StatwsCyhoeddwyd - 22 Hyd 2007
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