Decision Analysis Modelling of Costs and Outcomes following Cefepime Monotherapy in Canada Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the comparative cost of treatment and intermediate outcomes (percentage resistant organisms, days in hospital, etc) among cefepime and alternative parenteral antibiotics used for empiric monotherapy.DESIGN: Decision analysis model, based on published literature, clinical trial results and information from infectious disease clinicians.SETTING: A Canadian tertiary care hospital.INTERVENTION: Comparison of cefepime, ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime and ciprofloxacin in the treatment of lower respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections, skin/soft tissue infections, septicemia and febrile neutropenia.MAIN RESULTS: Cefepime treatment results in the lowest average cost per patient when used as initial empiric therapy for lower respiratory tract infections and for skin/soft tissue infections. Cefepime therapy is among the lowest cost treatments for the other infectious disease conditions and has the lowest cost for a weighted ‘average’ condition. Sensitivity analysis indicates that model results are most sensitive to duration of hospitalization.CONCLUSIONS: Initial empiric monotherapy with cefepime for serious infectious disease conditions may result in cost savings compared with alternative parenteral agents.

authors

  • Halpern, Michael T
  • Brown, Ruth E
  • Drolet, Martine
  • Sorensen, Sonja V
  • Mandell, Lionel

publication date

  • January 1997