Cost-effectiveness analysis of 4 therapeutic schemes for chronic hepatitis B

Key words: 
• pharmacoeconomics /
• cost-effect analysis /
• chronic hepatitis B

Abstract: Objective To evaluate the economic effectiveness of different drug therapeutic schemes for the same disease.Methods Using pharmacoeconomical cost-effectiveness analysis,four therapeutic schemes for chronic hepatitis B (A-alkoloids sophora injection, B-lamivudine + thymosin, C-interferon, D-lamivudine) were compared.Results The effective rates of four groups were 74.14%, 91.25%,82.86% and 83.33% respectively; The adverse drug reaction rates were 12.07%,8.75%,38.57% and 1.39%.And the cos-effectiveness ratios were respectively 88.83,134.89,174.11 and 91.03.Conclusion Schemes D are the best one.