Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Critical Care in Resource Limited Setting (CEACCLR)

University of Sarajevo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Critical Illness

Treatments: Procedure: renal replacement therapy; Procedure: mechanical ventilation; Procedure: non-invasive ventilation; Procedure: neuromuscular blockade

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02556476

CCUS-2435/11

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to examine the cost effectiveness of critical care in a middle income country with limited resources.

The main study hypothesis was that critical care is cost effective in low resources setting.

Full description

The investigators objective was to calculate the cost effectiveness of treatment of critically ill patients in a medical ICU of a middle income country with limited access to ICU resources.

Methods: Consecutive critically ill medical patients treated in a recently established medical ICU in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, were prospectively recorded and a subsequent cost utility analysis of intensive care in comparison to hospital ward treatment from the perspective of health care system was performed. Incremental cost effectiveness was calculated using estimates of ICU versus non-ICU treatment effectiveness based on a formal systematic review of published studies. Decision analytic modeling was used to compare treatment alternatives. Sensitivity analyses of the key model parameters were performed.

Enrollment: 148 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients treated between June 1 2011 and June 29 2012 in the medical ICU

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who stayed in the ICU less than 24 hours and
• hospital readmissions

Trial design

148 participants in 1 patient group

ICU patients

Description:

The actual cohort of 148 critically ill medical patients that received the treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU). The interventions include interventions that are usually performed within the ICU such as mechanical ventilation, non-invasive ventilation, neuromuscular blockade, renal replacement therapy.

Treatment:

Procedure: neuromuscular blockade

Procedure: non-invasive ventilation

Procedure: mechanical ventilation

Procedure: renal replacement therapy