Designing and testing of a health-economic Markov model to assess the cost-effectiveness of treatments for Bipolar disorder: TiBipoMod

Anne Kleijburg*, Joran Lokkerbol, Eline J Regeer, Bart Geerling, Silvia M A A Evers, Hans Kroon, Ben Wijnen

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Bipolar disorder is an often recurrent mood disorder that is associated with a significant economic and health-related burden. Increasing the availability of health-economic evidence may aid in reducing this burden. The aim of this study is to describe the design of an open-source health-economic Markov model for assessing the cost-effectiveness of interventions in the treatment of Bipolar Disorders type I and II, TiBipoMod.

METHODS: TiBipoMod is a decision-analytic Markov model that allows for user-defined incorporation of both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for the treatment of BD. TiBipoMod includes the health states remission, depression, (hypo)mania and death. Costs and effects are modeled over a lifetime horizon from a societal and healthcare perspective, and results are presented as the total costs, Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALY), Life Years (LY), and incremental costs per QALYs and LYs gained.

RESULTS: Functionalities of TiBipoMod are demonstrated by performing a cost-utility analysis of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) compared to the standard of care. Treatment with MBCT resulted in an increase of 0.18 QALYs per patient, and a dominant incremental cost-effectiveness ratio per QALY gained for MBCT at a probability of being cost-effective of 71% when assuming a €50,000 willingness-to-pay threshold.

CONCLUSION: TiBipoMod can easily be adapted and used to determine the cost-effectiveness of interventions in the treatment in Bipolar Disorder type I and II, and is freely available for academic purposes upon request at the authors.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1030989
Number of pages15
JournalFrontiers in Psychiatry
Volume13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Nov 2022

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