COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI SCREENING IN PREVENTION OF GASTRIC CANCER IN CHINESE

Author(s)

Feng Xie, PhD, Assistant Professor1, Nan Luo, PhD, Research Fellow2, Gordon Blackhouse, MSc, MBA, Research Associate1, Ron A Goeree, MA, Acting Director, PATH1, Hin-Peng Lee, FFPHM, (UK), Professor21McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; 2 National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Objective: Associated with no screening, H. pylori serology screening, and the 13C-Urea breath test (UBT) for gastric cancer in Chinese. Methods: A Markov model simulation was carried out in Singaporean Chinese at age of 40 years (n=478,500) from the perspective of public health care providers. The main outcome measures were costs, number of gastric cancer cases prevented, life years saved, quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained from the screening age to death, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs), which were compared among the three strategies. The uncertainty surrounding ICERs was addressed by scenario analyses and probabilistic sensitivity analysis using Monte Carlo simulation. Results: The ICER of serology screening versus no screening was $25,881 per QALY gained (95% confidence interval (95% CI): $5700 to $120,000). The ICER of UBT versus no screening was $53,602 per QALY gained (95% CI: $16,000 to $230,000). ICER of UBT versus serology screening was $470,000 per QALY gained, for which almost all random samples of the ICERs distributed above $50,000 per QALY. Conclusion: It cannot be confidently concluded that either H. pylori screening was a cost-effective strategy compared to no screening in all Chinese at age of 40 years. Nevertheless, serology screening has demonstrated much more potentiality to be a cost-effective strategy, especially in the population with higher gastric cancer prevalence.

Conference/Value in Health Info

2008-05, ISPOR 2008, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Value in Health, Vol. 11, No. 3 (May/June 2008)

Code

PGI7

Topic

Economic Evaluation

Topic Subcategory

Cost-comparison, Effectiveness, Utility, Benefit Analysis

Disease

Gastrointestinal Disorders

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