Clinical and economic aspects of the use of OneTouch glucose meters for the screening of diabetes mellitus
Open Access
- 8 December 2021
- journal article
- Published by Publishing House OKI in Kachestvennaya Klinicheskaya Praktika = Good Clinical Practice
- No. 3,p. 73-81
- https://doi.org/10.37489/2588-0519-2021-3-73-81
Abstract
Diabetes is increasingly widespread in the Russian Federation. It is a severe chronic disease that both independently reduces quality of life and causes exacerbation of other pathologies. This makes evaluation of quality of diabetes management and understanding of clinical and economic properties of various technologies used to screen blood glucose levels, including portable blood glucose meters. Previously there already were clinical-economic evaluations of blood glucose meters within context of Russian Federation but they have not included modern high-precision equipment, thus ensuring attractiveness of current research effort into HTA of modern blood glucose meters that accounts for real life hospital practice. Goal. To assess the clinic-economic properties of modern blood glucose portable measurement systems of OneTouch family and the real-world practics of their use in Russian healthcare facilities. Methodology. The research was performed from the perspective of the Russian healthcare system. Target population was represented by a virtual cohort of 100 patients. Only direct costs were accounted for, specifically all costs caused by consumables involved in operating multifunctional laboratory complexes and all consumables involved in operating portable glucose meters. Employee salaries were also included (accounting for number of personnel involved in different procedures as based on a real clinical practice survey performed as part of this research). Since it is known that modern, standard-compliant portable glucose meters have an accuracy that is more than sufficient for routine screening, cost minimization analysis was used for assessment of economic effects when comparing different approaches to organizing glucose level screening. Research results. The survey during this research effort has indicated that not all medical facilities utilize “tandem usage” of multifunction laboratory complexes and portable glucose meters, however, such “tandem use” is the most widespread approach to organizing blood glucose screening. Cost minimization analysis has demonstrated that “tandem usage” is also the most economically attractive approach and results in cost savings for the medical facility. Conclusions. Current research effort which included cost analysis and cost minimization analysis has demonstrated that “tandem usage” approach which involves combined use of both multifunction laboratory complexes and portable glucose meter systems has substantial economic advantage (over 60 % for analysis with 5 year time horizon). Multiple sensitivity analyses have confirmed robustness of this result. This research further establishes the importance of communicating advantages of modern portable glucose meters to healthcare organizers since this technology is not only clinically rational but also economically optimal.Keywords
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