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BMC MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS
卷 24, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12891-023-07099-x
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Osteoarthritis; Total knee replacement; Care pathway; Chronic post-surgical pain
This study followed up participants of the STAR trial to evaluate the long-term clinical and cost-effectiveness of the STAR care pathway for chronic pain patients after total knee replacement. The results suggest sustained clinical benefits and cost-effectiveness at four years.
BackgroundThe Support and Treatment After Replacement (STAR) care pathway is a clinically important and cost-effective intervention found to improve pain outcomes over one year for people with chronic pain three months after total knee replacement (TKR). We followed up STAR trial participants to evaluate the longer-term clinical- and cost-effectiveness of this care pathway.MethodsParticipants who remained enrolled on the trial at one year were contacted by post at a median of four years after randomisation and invited to complete a questionnaire comprising the same outcomes collected during the trial. We captured pain (co-primary outcome using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) pain severity and interference scales; scored 0-10, best to worst), function, neuropathic characteristics, emotional aspects of pain, health-related quality of life, and satisfaction. Electronic hospital informatics data on hospital resource use for the period of one to four years post-randomisation were collected from participating hospital sites. The economic evaluation took an National Health Service (NHS) secondary care perspective, with a four-year time horizon.ResultsOverall, 226/337 (67%) of participants returned completed follow-up questionnaires, yielding adjusted between-group differences in BPI means of -0.42 (95% confidence interval, CI (-1.07, 0.23); p = 0.20) for pain severity and - 0.64 (95% CI -1.41, 0.12); p = 0.10) for pain interference. Analysis using a multiple imputed data set (n = 337) showed an incremental net monetary benefit in favour of the STAR care pathway of 3,525 pound (95% CI -990 pound to 8,039) pound at a 20,000 pound/QALY willingness-to-pay threshold, leading to a probability that the intervention was cost-effective of 0.94.ConclusionsThe magnitude of the longer-term benefits of the STAR care pathway are uncertain due to attrition of trial participants; however, there is a suggestion of some degree of sustained clinical benefit at four years. The care pathway remained cost-effective at four years.Trial registrationISRCTN: 92,545,361.
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