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Table 2 Input data values for base case, one-way sensitivity analysis and probabilistic sensitivity analysis

From: Cost-effectiveness of different surgical treatment approaches for early breast cancer: a retrospective matched cohort study from China

  

Range

Distribution

Source

Parameters

Baseline

Upper

boundary

Lower

boundary

  

Cost

 Cost of local recurrence hospitalization (first year)

10,147.18

2971.96

17,322.39

Lognormal

[a]

 Cost of local recurrence outpatient (first year)

3728.43

2305.50

5151.35

Lognormal

[a]

 Cost of distant metastasis hospitalization per year

10,652.42

9233.85

12,070.99

Lognormal

[a]

 Cost of distant metastasis outpatient per year

2984.55

2649.14

3319.96

Lognormal

[a]

 Cost of hospitalization for 3 months before death

3585.82

2533.61

4638.03

Lognormal

[a]

 Cost of outpatient for 3 months before death

874.56

713.96

1035.15

Lognormal

[a]

 Cost of MAST+RECON hospitalization (first year)

10,221.30

9192.74

11,249.86

Lognormal

[a]

 Cost of MAST+RECON outpatient (first year)

6070.98

5233.55

6908.42

Lognormal

[a]

 Cost of BCT hospitalization (first year)

7475.54

4659.50

10,291.58

Lognormal

[a]

 Cost of BCT outpatient (first year)

6905.61

6051.87

7759.35

Lognormal

[a]

 Cost of MAST hospitalization (first year)

6630.24

6114.63

7145.85

Lognormal

[a]

 Cost of MAST outpatient (first year)

4210.88

3608.80

4812.97

Lognormal

[a]

 Annual cost of follow-up for MAST+RECON

1448.12

1166.11

1730.13

Lognormal

[a]

 Annual cost of follow-up for BCT

1198.82

961.66

1435.99

Lognormal

[a]

 Annual cost of follow-up for MAST

770.22

770.22

1090.77

Lognormal

[a]

 Transportation cost of MAST+RECON

253.97

203.17

304.76

Lognormal

[22]

 Cost of losing work of MAST+RECON

1202.54

962.03

1443.04

Lognormal

[b]

 Transportation cost of BCT

219.34

175.47

263.20

Lognormal

[22]

 Cost of losing work of BCT

997.85

798.28

1197.42

Lognormal

[b]

 Transportation cost of MAST

230.88

184.70

277.06

Lognormal

[22]

 Cost of losing work of MAST

1125.78

900.62

1350.93

Lognormal

[b]

Utilities

 Local recurrence (first year)

0.779

0.641

0.917

Beta

[23]

 Distant metastasis

0.737

0.657

0.817

Beta

[23]

 Disease-free for MSAT+RECON (first year)

0.868

0.694

1

Beta

[24, 25]

 Disease-free for MSAT+RECON (subsequent year)

0.933

0.746

1

Beta

[24, 25]

 Disease-free for BCT (first year)

0.872

0.823

0.921

Beta

[23]

 Disease-free for BCT (subsequent year)

0.923

0.903

0.943

Beta

[23]

 Disease-free for MSAT (first year)

0.785

0.729

0.842

Beta

[23]

 Disease-free for MSAT (subsequent year)

0.900

0.883

0.918

Beta

[23]

Transition probability

 Local recurrence of MAST+RECON

0.002908

0.002326

0.003489

Beta

[c]

 Distant metastasis of MAST+RECON

0.016702

0.013362

0.020042

Beta

[c]

 Distant metastasis after local recurrence of MAST+RECON

0.000000

0.000000

0.100000

Beta

[c]

 Death after distant metastasis of MAST+RECON

0.103557

0.082845

0.124268

Beta

[c]

 Local recurrence of BCT

0.002679

0.002143

0.003215

Beta

[c]

 Distant metastasis of BCT

0.009889

0.007911

0.011867

Beta

[c]

 Distant metastasis after local recurrence of BCT

0.201328

0.161062

0.241593

Beta

[c]

 Death after distant metastasis of BCT

0.016491

0.013193

0.019789

Beta

[c]

 Local recurrence of MAST

0.004019

0.003215

0.004823

Beta

[c]

 Distant metastasis of MAST

0.011288

0.00903

0.013545

Beta

[c]

 Distant metastasis after local recurrence of MAST

1.000000

0.800000

1.000000

Beta

[c]

 Death after distant metastasis of MAST

0.335161

0.268129

0.402193

Beta

[c]

Discount rate

3%

0

5%

Constant

 
  1. Source:a inpatient and outpatient records of patients in the electronic medical record system; b Calculated based on the announcement issued by the Statistics Bureau of Sichuan Province of China; c From cumulative incidence function
  2. Abbreviations: MAST + RECON Mastectomy with reconstruction; BCT Breast-conserving therapy; MAST Mastectomy