Operational Modeling with Health Economics to Support Decision Making for COPD Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the impact of interventions for improving the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), specifically increased use of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) on patient outcomes and cost-benefit analysis.

Data sources

We used the national Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) datasets in England, local data and experts from the hospital setting, National Prices and National Tariffs, reports and the literature around the effectiveness of PR programs.

Study design

The COPD pathway was modeled using discrete event simulation (DES) to capture the patient pathway to an adequate level of detail as well as randomness in the real world. DES was further enhanced by the integration of a health economic model to calculate the net benefit and cost of treat

SUBMITTER: Yakutcan U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8586487 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature