Health and economic benefits of improving pre-hospital identification of stroke in Australian women: a modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the long term gains in life years and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and the cost savings that could be achieved if ischaemic stroke was identified in women with the same level of accuracy received by men, versus the status quo.

Design

Decision tree and Markov model decision analysis.

Settings, participants

Two arms including 5513 women aged under 70 years: a hypothetical scenario, in which women receive the same level of accuracy of stroke identification as men (yet experienced symptoms relevant to women); and the status quo. Transitions between post-stroke health states, recurrent stroke and death were made in 1-year cycles over 50 years from a societal perspective.

Main outcome measures

Years of life lived, QALYs and costs per pati

SUBMITTER: Gadsden T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12318494 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature