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. 2023 Mar 18;66(7):1223–1234. doi: 10.1007/s00125-023-05897-5

Table 2.

Results comparing usual care with routine structured diet and PA intervention categories

Incremental change due to intervention-by-intervention subgroup
Outcome Usual care Base case (diet and/or PA) Diet only PA only Diet and PA
Excluding NICU/SCN
 Health outcomes
  Cases of GDM 37,957 −12,526 (−17,341, −6923) −19,905 (−21,508, −1350) −14,424 (−21,585, −5171) −9489 (−18,035, 1514)
  Cases of type 2 diabetes 85,219 −8248 (−11,419, −4554) −8498 (−14,158, −900) −9498 (−14,199, −3419) −6249 (−11,863, 1001)
  YLLa 5,773,306 2576 2654 2966 1951
  YLL with type 2 diabetesa 328,625 −45,739 −47,125 −52,669 −34,651
  QALYsa 5,123,076 10,748 11,074 12,376 8142
  Incremental QALYs per woman 0.035 (0.020, 0.050) 0.036 (0.004, 0.061) 0.041 (0.015, 0.061) 0.027 (−0.004, 0.051)
 Costs (AU$)
  Intervention cost 0 69,904,575 54,142,597 60,265,867 69,934,187
  Pregnancy costs 3,142,840,956 −25,187,141 −25,950,388 −29,003,375 −19,081,168
  Type 2 diabetes management 425,992,395 −60,108,916 −61,930,398 −69,216,327 −45,537,057
  Total healthcare costsa 3,568,833,351 −15,391,482 −33,738,190 −37,953,836 5,315,962
  Incremental cost per woman −50 (−230, 110) −110 (−373, 153) −124 (−373, 102) 17 (−229, 267)
 ICER Dominant Dominant Dominant 653
 PSA iterations within cost-saving quadrant (%) 70.5 81.6 85.7 47.9
 ROI ratio 1.22 (0.53, 2.13) 1.62 (0.16, 3.22) 1.63 (0.50, 3.00) 0.92 (−0.14, 2.05)
Including NICU/SCN
 Health outcomes
  NICU/SCN admissions 71,847 −1704 (−2359, −941) −1755 (−2925, −184) −1962 (−2936, −703) −1291 (−2453, 206)
 Costs (AU$)
  NICU/SCN costs 1,218,144,257 −24,264,341 −24,999,624 −27,940,757 −18,382,077
  Total healthcare costsa 4,786,977,608 −39,655,823 −58,737,814 −65,894,592 −13,066,114
  Incremental cost per woman −130 (−337, 57) −192 (−629, 132) −216 (−496, 63) −43 (−341, 276)
 ICER Dominant Dominant Dominant Dominant
 PSA iterations within cost-saving quadrant (%) 90.7 90.3 94.2 66.1
 ROI ratio 1.57 (0.75, 2.58) 2.08 (0.20, 4.02) 2.09 (0.69, 3.64) 1.19 (−0.17, 2.55)

Values are means, with 95% CI in parentheses where applicable

aDiscounted at 5% discounting rate

PSA, probabilistic sensitivity analysis; YLL, years of life lived