TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic evaluation of remote monitoring of patients with an implantable cardiac defibrillator (REMOTE-CIED study)
AU - de Graaf, Gimon
AU - Timmermans, Ivy
AU - Meine, Mathias
AU - Alings, Marco
AU - Pedersen, Susanne S.
AU - Mabo, Philippe
AU - Zitron, Edgar
AU - Redekop, Ken
AU - Versteeg, Henneke
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Boston Scientific Corporation to support independent investigator-initiated research ( http://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/investigator-sponsored-research.html ).
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PY - 2024/9
Y1 - 2024/9
N2 - Introduction: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) of heart failure patients has the potential to reduce healthcare resource use and costs, but current evidence has been inconclusive. This study aims assess the impact of RPM of heart failure patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator on medical resource use, direct medical costs, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), and travel time of patients, and to estimate its commercial headroom in the Netherlands and Germany. Methods: Data from the REMOTE-CIED randomized controlled trial were used to calculate differences in length of hospital stay, outpatient clinic visits, telephone consults, emergency room visits, and travel time between patients on in-clinic follow-up and RPM in the Netherlands, Germany, and France. Incremental cardiac-related healthcare costs and QALYs were calculated and used to calculate the commercial headroom of RPM in the Netherlands and Germany. The impact of imputation, parameter, and case-mix uncertainty on these outcomes was explored using probabilistic analysis. Results: Length of hospitalization, number of unscheduled admissions, and number of outpatient visits were lower in the remote monitoring group in all three countries. Number of hospital admissions was higher, and number of calls was lower in the Netherlands and Germany but not in France. Costs were lower in both the Netherlands (−€1041, 95% confidence interval (CI): −€3308, €1005) and Germany (−€2865, 95% CI: −€7619, €1105), while incremental effectiveness differed: −0.003 (95% CI: −0.114, 0.107) QALY in the Netherlands and +0.086 (95% CI: −0.083, 0.256) in Germany. Commercial headroom was estimated at €881 (95% CI: −€5430, €7208) in the Netherlands and €5005 (95% CI: −€1339, €11,960) in Germany. Discussion: RPM was found to result in reduced medical resource use and travel time. Whether it is cost saving or cost effective strongly depends on the costs of remote monitoring. Trial registration number and trial register: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01691586.
AB - Introduction: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) of heart failure patients has the potential to reduce healthcare resource use and costs, but current evidence has been inconclusive. This study aims assess the impact of RPM of heart failure patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator on medical resource use, direct medical costs, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), and travel time of patients, and to estimate its commercial headroom in the Netherlands and Germany. Methods: Data from the REMOTE-CIED randomized controlled trial were used to calculate differences in length of hospital stay, outpatient clinic visits, telephone consults, emergency room visits, and travel time between patients on in-clinic follow-up and RPM in the Netherlands, Germany, and France. Incremental cardiac-related healthcare costs and QALYs were calculated and used to calculate the commercial headroom of RPM in the Netherlands and Germany. The impact of imputation, parameter, and case-mix uncertainty on these outcomes was explored using probabilistic analysis. Results: Length of hospitalization, number of unscheduled admissions, and number of outpatient visits were lower in the remote monitoring group in all three countries. Number of hospital admissions was higher, and number of calls was lower in the Netherlands and Germany but not in France. Costs were lower in both the Netherlands (−€1041, 95% confidence interval (CI): −€3308, €1005) and Germany (−€2865, 95% CI: −€7619, €1105), while incremental effectiveness differed: −0.003 (95% CI: −0.114, 0.107) QALY in the Netherlands and +0.086 (95% CI: −0.083, 0.256) in Germany. Commercial headroom was estimated at €881 (95% CI: −€5430, €7208) in the Netherlands and €5005 (95% CI: −€1339, €11,960) in Germany. Discussion: RPM was found to result in reduced medical resource use and travel time. Whether it is cost saving or cost effective strongly depends on the costs of remote monitoring. Trial registration number and trial register: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01691586.
KW - cost-effectiveness analysis
KW - Economic evaluation
KW - heart failure
KW - implantable cardioverter defibrillator
KW - remote patient monitoring
KW - telehealth
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U2 - 10.1177/1357633X221129176
DO - 10.1177/1357633X221129176
M3 - Article
C2 - 36245363
SN - 1357-633X
VL - 30
SP - 1173
EP - 1185
JO - Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
JF - Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
IS - 7
ER -