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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2020 Mar 10;28(6):735–743. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2020.01.017

Table 2.

Base case and one-way deterministic sensitivity analyses Table 2 reports the average discounted life expectancy, discounted cost, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) for the PA program with SOC compared to SOC alone for the base case analysis and all one-way deterministic sensitivity analyses.

Scenario Life
Expectancy
Cost Δ Cost* Δ QALY* ICER
($/QALY)
Base Case
SOC alone (Ref**) 12.73 160,413
PA program + SOC 12.75 160,688 274.42 0.017 16,142
Sensitivity Analyses
Cost of PA program
2x cost 12.75 161,509 1095.08 0.017 64,416
3x cost 12.75 162,364 1950.22 0.018 108,346
4x cost 12.75 163,170 2756.57 0.017 162,151
5x cost 12.75 164,004 3590.68 0.017 211,216
PA-related background medical cost savings
Ref 12.73 157,937
50% reduced+ 12.75 158,359 422.03 0.017 24,825
Ref 12.73 155,501
100% reduced 12.75 156,027 526.55 0.017 30,974
PA-related QoL increment
Ref 12.73 160,417
Upper bound QoL++ 12.77 160,700 282.33 0.032 8,823
Ref 12.74 160,414
Lower bound QoL++ 12.74 160,713 299.61 0.003 99,870
Eligibility for PA program
Ref 13.08 151,133
Full OA population, all PA levels 13.09 151,536 402.54 0.013 30,965
*

ΔCost and ΔQALY are relative to SOC treatment regimen with the same natural history characteristics.

**

For each pair of runs, the “Ref” comparator mirrors the cohort parameters varied but is run with only SOC.

+

Reduced savings refers to the decrements to annual background medical costs associated with being active and insufficiently active. Under 100% reduced savings, background annual medical costs were the same for all subjects, regardless of PA level.

++

Lower and upper QoL bounds refer to the lower and upper 95% confidence interval values for the increments to applied annual QoL utility increment associated with being active and insufficiently active.