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Cost-effectiveness of a structured medication review approach for multimorbid older adults: Within-trial analysis of the OPERAM study

Salari, Paola and O'Mahony, Cian and Henrard, Séverine and Welsing, Paco and Bhadhuri, Arjun and Schur, Nadine and Roumet, Marie and Beglinger, Shanthi and Beck, Thomas and Jungo, Katharina and Byrne, Stephen and Hossmann, Stefanie and Knol, Wilma and O'Mahony, Denis and Spinewine, Anne and Rodondi, Nicolas and Schwenkglenks, Matthias. (2022) Cost-effectiveness of a structured medication review approach for multimorbid older adults: Within-trial analysis of the OPERAM study. PLoS One, 17. p. 4.

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Abstract

Background: Inappropriate polypharmacy has been linked with adverse outcomes in older, multimorbid adults. OPERAM is a European cluster-randomized trial aimed at testing the effect of a structured pharmacotherapy optimization intervention on preventable drug-related hospital admissions in multimorbid adults with polypharmacy aged 70 years or older. Clinical results of the trial showed a pattern of reduced drug-related hospital admissions, but without statistical significance. In this study we assessed the cost-effectiveness of the pharmacotherapy optimisation intervention.
Methods: We performed a pre-planned within-trial cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of the OPERAM intervention, from a healthcare system perspective. All data were collected within the trial apart from unit costs. QALYs were computed by applying the crosswalk German valuation algorithm to EQ-5D-5L-based quality of life data. Considering the clustered structure of the data and between-country heterogeneity, we applied Generalized Structural Equation Models (GSEMs) on a multiple imputed sample to estimate costs and QALYs. We also performed analyses by country and subgroup analyses by patient and morbidity characteristics.
Results: Trial-wide, the intervention was numerically dominant, with a potential cost-saving of CHF 3'588 (95% confidence interval (CI): -7'716; 540) and gain of 0.025 QALYs (CI: -0.002; 0.052) per patient. Robustness analyses confirmed the validity of the GSEM model. Subgroup analyses suggested stronger effects in people at higher risk.
Conclusion: We observed a pattern towards dominance, potentially resulting from an accumulation of multiple small positive intervention effects. Our methodological approaches may inform other CEAs of multi-country, cluster-randomized trials facing presence of missing values and heterogeneity between centres/countries.
Faculties and Departments:03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Public Health > Pharmazeutische Medizin ECPM > Pharmazeutische Medizin (Szucs)
UniBasel Contributors:Salari, Paola and Schwenkglenks, Matthias and Bhadhuri, Arjun and Schur, Nadine
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Public Library of Science
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