Rui V Duarte, Anthony Bentley, Nicole Soliday, Angela Leitner, Ashish Gulve, Peter S Staats, Dawood Sayed, Steven M Falowski, Corey W Hunter, Rod S Taylor
OBJECTIVES: The effectiveness of Evoke closed-loop spinal cord stimulation (CL-SCS), a novel modality of neurostimulation, has been demonstrated in a randomised controlled trial (RCT). The objective of this cost-utility analysis was to develop a de novo economic model to estimate the cost-effectiveness Evoke CL-SCS when compared to open-loop SCS (OL-SCS) for the management of chronic back and leg pain. METHODS: A decision tree followed by a Markov model were used to estimate costs and outcomes of Evoke CL-SCS versus OL-SCS over a 15-year time horizon from the UK National Health Service perspective...
July 5, 2023: Clinical Journal of Pain