1. Challenges for Model-Based Economic Evaluations of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis Interventions
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Tosteson, A. N. A., Jonsson, B., Grima, D. T., O'Brien, B. J., Black, D. M., and Adachi, J. D.
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Byline: A. N. A. Tosteson (1), B. Jonsson (2), D. T. Grima (3), B. J. O'Brien (4), D. M. Black (5), J. D. Adachi (6) Keywords: Key words:Cost-effectiveness analysis -- Decision analysis -- Osteoporosis -- Postmenopausal women -- Quality of life -- Risk factors Abstract: Assessing the cost-effectiveness of long-term treatment for osteoporosis requires use of mathematical models to estimate health effects and costs for competing interventions. The primary motivations for model-based analyses include the lack of long-term clinical trial outcome data and the lack of data comparing all relevant treatments within randomized clinical trials. We report on specific modeling challenges that arose in the development of a model of the natural history of postmenopausal osteoporosis that is suitable for assessing the cost-effectiveness of osteoporosis interventions among various population subgroups in diverse countries. These include choice of modeling changes in bone mineral density (BMD) or in fracture rate, definition of health states, modeling mortality and costs of long-term care following fracture, incorporation of health utility, and model validation. This report should facilitate future postmenopausal osteoporosis model development and provide insight for decision-makers who must evaluate model-based economic analyses of postmenopausal osteoporosis interventions. Author Affiliation: (1) Department of Medicine and the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, US (2) Centre for Health Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden, SE (3) Innovus Research Inc., Burlington, Ontario, Canada, CA (4) Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, and Centre for Evaluation of Medicines, St Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, CA (5) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California-San Francisco, USA , US (6) Department of Medicine, St Joseph's Hospital, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, CA Article note: Received: 14 November 2000 / Accepted: 9 April 2001
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