Cost-effectiveness of lumbar artificial intervertebral disc replacement: driven by the choice of comparator

• Published in: ANZ journal of surgery Vol. 83; no. 9; pp. 669 - 675
• Main Authors: Parkinson, Bonny, Goodall, Stephen, Thavaneswaran, Prema
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Australia Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2013
• Subjects: Australia; Back pain; Back surgery; Cost-Benefit Analysis; cost-effectiveness analysis; Costs; economics; Evaluation; Health Care Costs; Health care expenditures; Health insurance; Humans; Intervertebral Disc Displacement - complications; Intervertebral Disc Displacement - economics; Intervertebral Disc Displacement - surgery; Low back pain; Low Back Pain - economics; Low Back Pain - etiology; lumbar artificial intervertebral disc replacement; Markov Chains; Medicare Benefits Schedule; Models, Economic; Models, Statistical; Oswestry Disability Index; Quality-Adjusted Life Years; Radiculopathy - economics; Radiculopathy - etiology; Reoperation - economics; Spinal Fusion - economics; Surgery; Surgical techniques; Total Disc Replacement - economics; Treatment Outcome; Australia; economics; cost-effectiveness analysis; low back pain; lumbar artificial intervertebral disc replacement

Background Lower back pain is a common and costly condition in Australia. This paper aims to conduct an economic evaluation of lumbar artificial intervertebral disc replacement (AIDR) compared with lumbar fusion for the treatment of patients suffering from significant axial back pain and/or radicula...