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Table 5 Results of cost utility analysis: base-case

From: Cost-utility analysis of trabecular micro-bypass stents (TBS) in patients with mild-to-moderate open-angle Glaucoma in Italy

• Treatment

iStent inject® + cataract surgery

Cataract surgery

Costs (€)

• Procedures (€)

€ 3557.00

€ 2317.06

• Medications (€)

€25.59

€51.17

• Progression-related (€)

€4691.45

€4765.25

• Adverse events (€)

€94.46

€1.22

Total costs (€)

€8368.51

€7134.71

Efficacy

• Survival (life years, LYs)

• 14.575

• 14.575

Quality of life adjusted survival (QALY)

11.114

11.019

Incremental outcomes (iStent inject® + cataract surgery vs. cataract surgery alone)

• Incremental costs (€)

• €1233.80

• Incremental LYs

• –

• Incremental QALYs

• 0.095

ICER (€/QALY)

€13,037/QALY

  1. LYs life years, QALYs quality-adjusted life years