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DOI: 10.3310/hta16060Health Technology Assessment 2012; Vol. 16: No. 661Cost-effectivenessThere was a small reduction in vision-<strong>related</strong> HSS costs following VPDT compared with BSCbecause of the smaller vision loss (year 1: mean costs of £320 <strong>for</strong> BSC group vs £260 <strong>for</strong> VPDTgroup; year 2: £382 vs £290). This reduction in vision-<strong>related</strong> costs offsets the additional costs ofthe intervention only to a small extent, and the incremental total costs of VPDT were positive(Table 20). The incremental QALYs <strong>for</strong> VPDT versus BSC were positive but small (Table 20). Thebase-case cost-effectiveness results showed that combining the small positive incremental QALYSgained <strong>for</strong> VPDT with the relatively high additional costs gave a cost per QALY of £170,000 over2 years (i.e. £3514/0.0207).TABLE 17 Mean resources used <strong>for</strong> interventions and associated costs (£) per patient <strong>for</strong> VPDT in year 1 (≤ 350 days)and year 2 (> 350 and ≤ 715 days)ItemYear 1 (n = 4566) Year 2 (n = 1834)Mean SD Mean SDVPDT resource useVPDT treatment visits 2.41 1.17 0.43 0.81Follow-up visits 1.30 1.02 1.59 1.25VPDT costs (£)FA 591 152 325 234<strong>Verteporfin</strong> and disposables 2074 1003 365 698VPDT treatment visit 272 132 48 92Follow-up visit 87 69 107 83Total 3026 1182 845 944TABLE 18 Distribution of visits <strong>for</strong> which visual function and resource use data were availableDuration of follow-up (months)Parameter0 3 6 9 12 > 12 TotalResource use and BCVA 1350 136 848 171 528 402 3435Resource use and CS 1276 96 764 127 466 356 3085TABLE 19 The percent<strong>age</strong> of patients using each HSS item, unit costs (£) and HSS costs (£)Item % using service in last 3 months Unit cost Mean (SD) annual cost per patient (£)Low vision appointment 9.96 83 51.2 (259.2)Visits to GP 10.88 44 22.1 (70.5)Social services 1.14 35 129.0 (1531)Day centre 1.21 32 26.3 (256)Nursing home stay 0.06 648 19.6 (812)Residential care 0.12 443 26.8 (785)Sheltered housing 0.20 140 14.8 (328)Antidepressant use 0.52 10 0.64 (8.8)Other NA NA 10.0 (53)Total NA NA 297 (2078)NA, not applicable.© Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO 2012. This work was produced by Reeves et al. under the terms of a commissioning contract issued by theSecretary of State <strong>for</strong> Health.

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