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Table 1 Summary of input data used in the model

From: A cost-effectiveness analysis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prophylaxis in infants in the United Kingdom

Subgroup

Value (lower and upper CI)

Reference

Baseline risk of hospitalisation

CHD infants

9.7% (7.4%, 12.0%)

Feltes et al. 2003 [5]

CLD infants

12.8% (8.8%, 16.8%)

IMPACT, 1998 [6]

Preterm: <29 wGA

10.00% (0.7%, 19.3%)

MedImmune/Abbott, Data on File.

Preterm: 29–32 wGA

7.69% (2.86%, 12.5%)

MedImmune/Abbott, Data on File.

Preterm: 33–35 wGA

7.69% (2.86%, 12.5%)

MedImmune/Abbott, Data on File.

Relative risk reduction of RSV hospitalisation with palivizumab prophylaxis

CHD infants

45.3% (18.1%, 63.4%)

Feltes et al. 2003 [5]

CLD infants

38.5% (5.0%, 60.2%)

IMPACT, 1998 [6]

Preterm: <29 wGA

80.39% (0.00%, 96.26%)

MedImmune/Abbott, Data on File.

Preterm: 29–32 wGA

79.69% (35.38%, 93.62%)

MedImmune/Abbott, Data on File.

Preterm: 33–35 wGA

73.16% (54.87%, 93.09%)

MedImmune/Abbott, Data on File.

Mortality rates of children hospitalised due to RSV disease

CHD infants

3.72% (1.19%, 6.23%)

Wang et al. 2008 [14]

CLD infants

4.00% (3.00%, 5.00%)

Wang et al. 2008 [14]

Preterm infants

0.43% (0.23%, 0.63%)

Wang et al. 2008 [14]

Life expectancy

CHD infants

76.0 years (75.0††, 78.9††)

Office for National Statistics [25]

All other subgroups

79.0 years (77.9††, 82.0††)

Office for National Statistics [25]

Risk of RSV-related sequelae

Increase in resource use

2 years

Greenough et al. 2001 [24]

Decrease in utility

5 years

Greenough et al. 2004 [21]

Drug and administration costs

Palivizumab (50 mg vial)

£306.64/pack (£6.13/mg)

MIMS [27]

Palivizumab (100 mg vial)

£563.64/pack (£5.64/mg)

MIMS [27]

Initial administration by hospital nurse

£41 (£23, £47)

Costs of Health and Social Care 2009–2010 [29]

Subsequent administration by GP practice nurse

£31 (£26, £36)

Costs of Health and Social Care 2009–2010 [29]

Rate of hospital admissions for RSV (% of patients)

CHD children in general ward

100%

Assumption

CHD children in Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

38.14% (28.48%, 47.81%)

Feltes CSR [16]

All other infants; General ward

100%

Assumption

All other infants; Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

27.45% (18.79%, 47.81%)

FDA - Palivizumab Clinical Review [2]

Length of stay of hospital admissions for RSV patients

CHD children in general ward

12.40 (9.30, 18.99§)

FDA - Palivizumab Clinical Review [2]

CHD children in Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

15.19 (11.39, 15.50§)

FDA - Palivizumab Clinical Review [2]

All other infants; General ward

6.64 (4.98, 8.32§)

FDA - Palivizumab Clinical Review [2]

All other infants; Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

7.04 (5.28, 8.80§)

FDA - Palivizumab Clinical Review [2]

Cost per day of RSV hospitalisation

General ward

£555 (£406*, £1,955*)

NHS National Schedule of Reference Costs [28]

Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

£2,225 (£311*, £1,954*)

NHS National Schedule of Reference Costs [28]

Medical cost of sequelae (recurrent wheeze/asthma)

Annual per patient cost for all other subgroups

£14, 015

Greenough et al., 2004 [21]; Costs of Health and Social Care 2009–2010 [29]; NHS National Schedule of Reference Costs [28]

Annual per patient cost for 33–35 wGA

£810 (£0, £8,972)

Shefali-Petal et al., 2011 [22]

Health state utility values (Utility (SE); (Lower and upper CI)

Non RSV-H patients

0.95 (0.25); (0.03, 1.00‡‡)

Greenough et al., 2004 [21]

Patients admitted with RSV-H

0.88 – Modelled as 7.37% (0.94%) reduction; (5.53%, 9.21%§)

Greenough et al., 2004 [21]

  1. Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval, CHD Congenital heart disease, CLD Chronic lung disease, wGA weeks of gestational age, GP General practitioner, SE Standard error, RSV-H Respiratory syncytial virus hospitalisation. †Beta distribution; ‡ Gamma distribution; Log-normal distribution. †† The lower and upper confidence intervals are based on the average life expectancy of males and females respectively. § Estimated assuming a confidence interval of ± 25%. * Interquartile range. ‡‡ Plausible range.