良性前立腺増殖による 下部尿路症状の治療を拡大する. 4つの北欧諸国における能力と予算の影響分析
Deirdre Blissett1, Erik Sagen2, Espen Kvan3
1MedTech Economics, Winchester, UK.
Scandinavian journal of urology
|September 3, 2025
まとめ
北欧諸国では,良性前立腺増殖 (BPE) による手術の選択肢を多様化することで,病院の入院日数と診療時間を大幅に短縮できます. 患者中心のケアが 経済的にも有効になるため 費用を大幅に削減できます
科学分野:
- 泌尿器科
- 健康 経済
- 医療管理
背景:
- 良性前立腺拡大 (BPE) は,手術を必要とする一般的な状態です.
- BPEの現在の外科的な提供は,費用対効果と資源利用に最適化されていないかもしれません.
- 多様な外科的アプローチは 患者の治療成果と 医療システムの効率を 改善できるでしょう
研究 の 目的:
- 北欧諸国における医療費の支払者の観点から,多様化されたBPE外科医療の能力と予算の影響を分析する.
- 前立腺のトランス尿管切除 (TURP) と前立腺のホルミウムレーザーエヌクレエーション (HoLEP),前立腺の光選択蒸発 (PVP),およびRezūmTM水蒸気療法 (WVTT) の費用と資源利用を比較する.
主な方法:
- コホートシミュレーションモデルを使用して,4年間の治療費用と容量への影響 (ベッド日,稼働時間) を比較した.
- この研究は,現在の治療組み合わせと,TURPを50%に減らし,HoLEP,PVP,WVTTの量を増加させる仮説的シナリオを比較した.
- 結果の信頼性を評価するために,決定的および確率的感受性分析 (DSAとPSA) を実施した.
主要な成果:
- TURPを50%に削減し,外科手術の選択肢を多様化すれば,年間590日,2,281時間,スウェーデンでは343日,1,248時間,ノルウェーでは267日,1,032時間,フィンランドでは576日,1,181時間節約できる.
- RezūmTM水蒸気療法 (WVTT) は,すべてのシナリオにおいて最も低コストな処置として特定されました.
- 感受性分析により,この結果の確固たるところが確認された.
結論:
- 北欧諸国では,BPEの多様な外科的ケアモデルを採用することで,治療室での時間や病院での入院時間を大幅に節約できます.
- これらの節約は,より新しい技術の高い初期機器コストを相殺することができます.
- 経済的な要因は北欧の患者中心のBPE手術の実施を妨げてはならない.
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