Table 2.
Deterministic results
| Discounted results | Undiscounted results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment | Costs, USD | Life-years | QALYs | Costs, USD | Life-years | QALYs |
| BKP versus CMM; inpatient (N = 2,071) | ||||||
| CMM | 32,324 | 2.95 | 1.47 | 32,901 | 3.17 | 1.58 |
| BKP inpatient | 58,986 | 3.98 | 2.08 | 60,463 | 4.39 | 2.29 |
| Incremental | 26,662 | 1.03 | 0.61 | 27,561 | 1.22 | 0.71 |
| ICER per LY | 25,813 | 22,564 | ||||
| ICER per QALY | 43,455 | 38,661 | ||||
| BKP versus CMM; outpatient (N = 3,708) | ||||||
| CMM | 24,234 | 6.16 | 3.08 | 25,923 | 7.17 | 3.59 |
| BKP outpatient | 32,972 | 7.50 | 3.88 | 35,829 | 8.96 | 4.63 |
| Incremental | 8,738 | 1.34 | 0.80 | 9,906 | 1.80 | 1.05 |
| ICER per LY | 6,544 | 5,508 | ||||
| ICER per QALY | 10,922 | 9,466 | ||||
| VP versus CMM; inpatient (N = 720) | ||||||
| CMM | 31,005 | 2.95 | 1.47 | 31,569 | 3.17 | 1.58 |
| VP inpatient | 61,342 | 4.27 | 2.23 | 63,041 | 4.74 | 2.48 |
| Incremental | 30,338 | 1.32 | 0.76 | 31,472 | 1.57 | 0.89 |
| ICER per LY | 22,918 | 20,008 | ||||
| ICER per QALY | 39,774 | 35,240 | ||||
| VP versus CMM; outpatient (1,042) | ||||||
| CMM | 23,789 | 6.03 | 3.02 | 25,437 | 6.99 | 3.50 |
| VP outpatient | 32,301 | 7.15 | 3.71 | 35,399 | 8.49 | 4.39 |
| Incremental | 8,512 | 1.12 | 0.69 | 9,962 | 1.50 | 0.89 |
| ICER per LY | 7,578 | 6,654 | ||||
| ICER per QALY | 12,293 | 11,151 | ||||
BKP, balloon kyphoplasty; CMM, conservative medical management; ICER, incremental cost-effectiveness ratio; LY, life-year; QALY, quality-adjusted life-year; VP, vertebroplasty