Antiviral treatment for outpatient use during an influenza pandemic: a decision tree model of outcomes averted and cost-effectiveness

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Venkatesan, Sudhir, Carias, Cristina, Biggerstaff, Matthew, Campbell, Angela P, Nguyen-Van-Tam, Jonathan S., Kahn, Emily, Myles, Puja R. and Meltzer, Martin I (2019) Antiviral treatment for outpatient use during an influenza pandemic: a decision tree model of outcomes averted and cost-effectiveness. Journal of Public Health, 41 (2). pp. 379-390. ISSN 1741-3850

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Abstract

Background: Many countries have acquired antiviral stockpiles for pandemic influenza mitigation and a significant part of the stockpile may be focussed towards community-based treatment.

Methods: We developed a spreadsheet-based, decision tree model to assess outcomes averted and cost-effectiveness of antiviral treatment for outpatient use from the perspective of the healthcare payer in the UK. We defined five pandemic scenarios– one based on the 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic and four hypothetical scenarios varying in measures of transmissibility and severity.

Results: Community-based antiviral treatment was estimated to avert 14% to 23% of hospitalizations in an overall population of 62.28 million. Higher proportions of averted outcomes were seen in patients with high-risk conditions, when compared to non-high-risk patients. We found that antiviral treatment was cost-saving across pandemic scenarios for high-risk population groups, and cost-saving for the overall population in higher severity influenza pandemics. Antiviral effectiveness had the greatest influence on both the number of hospitalizations averted and on cost-effectiveness.

Conclusions: This analysis shows that across pandemic scenarios, antiviral treatment can be cost-saving for population groups at high risk of influenza-related complications.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/942992
Additional Information: This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal pf Public Health following peer review. The version of record Sudhir Venkatesan, Cristina Carias, Matthew Biggerstaff, Angela P Campbell, Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam, Emily Kahn, Puja R Myles, Martin I Meltzer; Antiviral treatment for outpatient use during an influenza pandemic: a decision tree model of outcomes averted and cost-effectiveness, Journal of Public Health, fdy108 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy108.
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Medicine > Division of Epidemiology and Public Health
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy108
Depositing User: Claringburn, Tara
Date Deposited: 19 Jun 2018 10:19
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:43
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/52482

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