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ArticleOsteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA2010

Cost-effectiveness of multifaceted evidence implementation programs for the prevention of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.

T Beukelman, K G Saag, J R Curtis, M L Kilgore, M Pisu

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Article in Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A framework for the development of guidelines for the management of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2012
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  3. Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis: 2019 concise clinical review.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2019
    Review
  4. Cost-effectiveness of implementing guidelines for the treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis in Japan.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2019
    Article
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  6. Oral bisphosphonates reduce the risk of clinical fractures in glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis in clinical practice.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2013
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

T BeukelmanUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Deep South Musculoskeletal Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, Birmingham, AL 35294-3408, USA. tbeukelman@peds.uab.edu
K G Saag
J R Curtis
M L Kilgore
M Pisu
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

Ethnic Differences in the Risk of Fracture and Vascular DiseaseK23AR053351 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI CURTIS, JEFFREY R. · 2007 to 2011
$755k
NIAMS NIH HHS K23 AR053351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

summaryUsing a computer simulation model, we determined that an intervention aimed at improving the management of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis is likely to be cost-effective to third-party health insurers only if it focuses on individuals with very high fracture risk and the proportion of prescriptions for generic bisphosphonates increases substantially.

introductionThe purpose of this study is to determine whether an evidence implementation program (intervention) focused on increasing appropriate management of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP) might be cost-effective compared with current practice (no intervention) from the perspective of a third-party health insurer.

methodsWe developed a Markov microsimulation model to determine the cost-effectiveness of the intervention. The hypothetical patient cohort was of current chronic glucocorticoid users 50-65 years old and 70% female. Model parameters were derived from published literature, and sensitivity analyses were performed.

resultsThe intervention resulted in incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) of $298,000 per quality adjusted life year (QALY) and $206,000 per hip fracture averted. If the cohort's baseline risk of fracture was increased by 50% (10-year cumulative incidence of hip fracture of 14%), the ICERs improved significantly: $105,000 per QALY and $137,000 per hip fracture averted. The ICERs improved significantly if the proportion of prescriptions for generic bisphosphonates was increased to 75%, with $113,000 per QALY and $77,900 per hip fracture averted.

conclusionsEvidence implementation programs for the management of GIOP are likely to be cost-effective to third-party health insurers only if they are targeted at individuals with a very high risk of fracture and the proportion of prescriptions for less expensive generic bisphosphonates increases substantially.

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Models, EconometricAgedBone Density Conservation AgentsComputer SimulationCost-Benefit AnalysisDiphosphonatesDrug CostsEvidence-Based MedicineFemaleGlucocorticoidsHumansMaleMarkov ChainsMiddle AgedOsteoporosisOsteoporotic FracturesBone Density Conservation AgentsDiphosphonatesGlucocorticoids

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PMID19937227
PMCPMC3815619
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