Brown, Jacqueline

Haro, Josep Maria

Hong, Jihyung

Knapp, Martin

Kontodimas, Stathis

Novick, Diego

Ratcliffe, Mark

Tzivelekis, Spyridon

Windmeijer, Frank

Objective: To determine the cost utility of treating schizophrenic patients with olanzapine compared with other antipsychotics in a naturalistic outpatient setting.Methods: The pan-European SOHO study is a 3-year, prospective, outpatient, observational study of outcomes associated with antipsychotic treatment, focusing on olanzapine, in ten European countries. For the cost-utility analysis, healthcare resource use (inpatient care, day care, outpatient psychiatric consultations and antipsychotic and concomitant medication use) and EQ-5D data were collected at baseline and at 3, 6 and 12 months. The perspective was that of the health service payer. UK healthcare unit costs (year 2004 values) were applied to the resource use data for the ten countries. UK population tariffs were applied to the EQ-5D data to determine utility values.An Epoch analysis was used to analyze the longitudinal data. Multivariate regression analyses that adjusted for baseline covariates were used to estimate the incremental cost and utility gains for patients treated with olanzapine compared with each of the other antipsychotics (risperidone, quetiapine, amisulpride, clozapine and oral or depot typical antipsychotics).Results: A total of 10 972 patients were enrolled at baseline, of which 9107 completed the 12-month study period. Treatment with olanzapine was more effective in terms of QALYs gained than all of the other antipsychotic treatments. Treatment with olanzapine dominated quetiapine and amisulpride. The incremental cost for olanzapine compared with risperidone was 226 pound per patient over 12 months and the incremental cost per QALY gained was 5156 pound, with bootstrap analyses showing 100% of the replications'falling below a 30 pound 000 per QALY gained threshold. Compared with treatment with clozapine, olanzapine was found to be marginally more effective, at an additional cost of 13 pound per patient over 12 months and to have an incremental cost per QALY gained of 775 pound. Bootstrap analyses showed that 81 % of replications fell below a 30 pound 000 per QALY gained threshold. Comparing olanzapine with oral and depot typical antipsychotics, the incremental cost was 849 pound and 1106 pound per patient over 12 months and the incremental cost per QALY gained was 15 pound 696 and 23 pound 331, respectively. Bootstrap analyses showed that 98% of the replications fell below a 30 pound 000 per QALY gained threshold for the comparison with oral typical antipsychotics, and 79% of replications for the comparison with depot preparations.Conclusions: Among SOHO patients, if a funding threshold of 30 pound 000 per QALY gained is assumed, this analysis suggests that olanzapine has a high probability of being the most cost-effective treatment compared with other antipsychotic treatments. However, comparison of olanzapine with clozapine and typical depot antipsychotics should be viewed with caution because clozapine is a second-line treatment and depot treatment is used for patients who do not adhere to their oral medication.</p

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Cost-utility analysis of treatment with olanzapine compared with other antipsychotic treatments in patients with schizophrenia in the pan-European SOHO study

Cost-utility analysis of treatment with olanzapine compared with other antipsychotic treatments in patients with schizophrenia in the pan-European SOHO study

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