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Price-Utility Evaluation of Electro acupuncture Evaluating Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicine (NSAIDs) within the therapy of Power Low Again Ache.
J Acupunct Meridian Stud. 2018 Feb 02;:
Authors: Toroski M, Nikfar S, Mojahedian MM, Ayati MH
Summary
INTRODUCTION: and Goal: Power Low Again Ache (CLBP) is among the many commonest and vital causes for visiting a backbone surgeon by sufferers; it’s the second explanation for visiting a health care provider. Low again ache could cause appreciable struggling and is a serious monetary burden within the society. There are numerous completely different strategies obtainable for the therapy of CLBP. This examine aimed to check the cost-utility of Electro-acupuncture (EA) and NSAIDs, as two frequent therapy strategies for sufferers with CLBP.
METHODS: This examine was performed on 100 sufferers affected by Power Low Again Ache. Circumstances have been randomly chosen from sufferers referring to 2 hospitals and 4 acupuncture clinics in Tehran. Forty one (41) sufferers acquired EA and 59 sufferers have been prescribed NSAIDs. The EuroQol EQ-5D questionnaire was used to calculate High quality-Adjusted Life-Yr (QALY). For calculating the overall price of the 2 therapy strategies, head to head interview with sufferers was performed by the researchers (utilizing particular fundamental literature questionnaire), neurologists, and backbone surgeons. The examine perspective was social (direct and oblique prices calculated).
RESULTS: The imply age for EA group was 41±2.three years and for NSAIDs group it was 38.zero± four.four. The typical of the utility of sufferers beneath therapy by EA and NSAIDs was estimated as zero.70 and zero.627, respectively. The distinction in utility between the 2 teams was important (p?zero.05). The whole price of EA and NSAIDs was estimated as 461.48±57.eight$ and 497.77±85.2$ for one 12 months (2016), respectively, which was additionally important (p?zero.05).
CONCLUSION: The outcomes point out a big distinction between EA and NSAIDs in circumstances of each utility and complete price. The findings display that EA is cheaper than NSAIDs, as due to this fact might be thought-about as a substitute therapy for CLBP, with cheap cost-utility.
PMID: 29436371 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]