Simoes Correa Galendi, Julia ORCID: 0000-0002-4832-7294 (2023). Health economic aspects to the adoption of MR-HIFU for patients with bone metastases. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
Bone metastases is a common consequence of advanced cancer that is usually associated with pain, impaired mobility, and reduced overall quality of life. External Beam Radiotherapy (EBRT) is the current standard of care; however, it might take four weeks to induce pain relief. Moreover, 50% of patient recur pain after initial response to EBRT, and reirradiation is limited due to the risk of cumulative doses harming surrounding structures. Magnetic Resonance image-guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MR-HIFU) is an emerging non-invasive procedure that can provide significant and rapid pain palliation for patients with bone metastases with a favorable safety profile. Thus, the FURTHER project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of MR-HIFU to pain palliation of painful bone metastases compared to the EBRT in a randomized controlled trial. In addition to evidence on effectiveness of MR-HIFU, health economic evidence was needed to support adoption of MR-HIFU in Europe. This cumulative dissertation comprises three dissertation subprojects. The first subproject describes a time-driven activity-based costing approach to determine the costs of the MR-HIFU from the hospital perspective. The second subproject consists of an early economic modelling study that aimed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of MR-HIFU compared to EBRT from the perspective of the German Statutory Health Insurance (SHI). The third subproject consists of a mixed-method participatory research with the objective to investigate contextual factors influencing the adoption of MR-HIFU for treatment of bone metastases in Europe. Based on results of the three subprojects, three main conclusions follow. First, adoption of MR-HIFU would benefit greatly from improvements to the care pathway, which would reduce costs of MR-HIFU, and subsequently impact the cost-effectiveness in relation to EBRT. Second, although still in early phase of implementation, MR-HIFU is potentially cost effective for patients with bone metastases and further research is worthwhile to better inform the decision whether to adopt MR-HIFU as a treatment alternative in the German SHI. Third, to ensure successful adoption of MR-HIFU, several contextual factors have to be addressed strategically, such as hospital referral, logistics and patients’ preferences. MR-HIFU is a promising treatment strategy for patients with painful bone metastases. Although clinical evidence on the effectiveness of MR-HIFU is still needed, the health economic evidence generated in this cumulative dissertation provides strong impetus for the adoption of MR-HIFU in clinical practice.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-653040 | ||||||||||||
Date: | 2023 | ||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Gesundheitsökonomie > Institut für Gesundheitsökonomie und Klinische Epidemiologie | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | Medical sciences Medicine | ||||||||||||
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Date of oral exam: | 29 March 2023 | ||||||||||||
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Funders: | Horizon Europe 2020 Grant agreement No 825859 | ||||||||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/65304 |
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