Cost-effectiveness of advanced life support and prehospital critical care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in England: a decision analysis model.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This research aimed to answer the following questions: What are the costs of prehospital advanced life support (ALS) and prehospital critical care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)? What is the cost-effectiveness of prehospital ALS? What improvement in survival rates from OHCA would prehospital critical care need to achieve in order to be cost-effective?

Setting

A single National Health Service ambulance service and a charity-funded prehospital critical care service in England.

Participants

The patient population is adult, non-traumatic OHCA.

Methods

We combined data from previously published research with data provided by a regional ambulance service and air ambulance charity to create a decision tree model, coupled with a Markov model, of c

SUBMITTER: von Vopelius-Feldt J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661553 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature