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. 2014 Jan 30;36(4):674–683. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdt132

Table 2.

Cost-effectiveness of an intervention continued for 5 years with the same intervention effectiveness in each quintile of deprivation.

Deprivation quintile
Least deprived 2 3 4 Most deprived
Number entering intervention 48 933 41 280 44 077 37 097 39 420
Life years lived without disease (per 1000)a 54.9 (17.5 to 93.5) 58.7 (17.6 to 99.6) 62.0 (19.5 to 105.9) 69.6 (20.0 to 117.9) 74.5 (22.8 to 128.0)
Life years lived with physical morbidity (per 1000)a
 Single condition −43.0 (−78.6 to −8.9) −45.1 (−81.9 to −8.1) −47.7 (−86.6 to −9.5) −52.5 (−93.9 to −9.6) −54.4 (−101.8 to −9.0)
 Dual conditions −4.9 (−10.9 to 0.9) −6.3 (−13.4 to0.95) −6.2 (−13.4 to 0.6) −7.5 (−15.8 to 0.95) −8.9 (−19.4 to 1.60)
 Triple conditions −0.2 (−0.9 to 0.4) −0.4 (−1.2 to 0.54) −0.3 (−1.2 to 0.5) −0.5 (−1.7 to 0.8) −0.5 (−1.8 to 0.8)
Life years lived with depression (per 1000)a −2.4 (−25.2 to 20.1) −3.4 (−31.2 to 24.0) −3.5 (−30.0 to 25.6) −4.5 (−37.7 to 28.3) −5.2 (−45.8 to 35.4)
Total intervention costs (£ per 1000) 104 162 (104 144 to 104 179) 105 929 (105 908 to 105 949) 100 962 (100 941 to 100 983) 97 547 (97 524 to 97 570) 102 777 (102 750 to 102 803)
Incremental costs of non-intervention health-care utilization (£ per 1000) −14 767 (−90 670 to 61 982) −17 287 (−95 244 to 60 879) −18 070 (−93 970 to 57 185) −20 674 (−98 192 to 57 335) −25 047 (−108 110 to 52 555)
Incremental total costs (£ per 1000)a 89 394 (13 483 to 166 160) 88 642 (10 680 to 166 791) 82 892 (7172 to 158 163) 76 873 (−649 to 77 965) 77 730 (−5342 to 155 326)
Incremental QALYs (discounted 3.5%) (per 1000) 3.73 (−10.05 to 18.30) 4.09 (−11.6 to 20.2) 4.45 (−11.7 to 29.7) 4.7 (−12.7 to 21.0) 6.1 (−10.2 to 22.9)
Incremental QALYs (discounted 1.5%) (per 1000) 6.32 (−13.15 to 27.26) 6.9 (−15.8 to 29.2) 7.62 (−15.5 to 29.7) 8.1 (−16.0 to 32.0) 10.3 (−13.7 to 34.8)
Net Health Benefit (QALYs per 1000) 0.75 (−13.32 to 15.38) 1.13 (−14.7 to 17.8) 1.69 (−14.7 to 17.3) 2.11 (−15.7 to 18.8) 3.5 (−13.3 to 20.6)
Probability cost-effective at £30 000 per QALY (%) 52.5 54.0 58.0 58.8 63.3

Figures represent the mean (95% interval) for 2000 simulations, except where indicated.