Technical University Munich (TU Munich) Researchers Illuminate Research in Health Insurance (Health economic evaluation of the ‘Flying Intervention Team’ as a novel stroke care concept for rural areas: study protocol of the TEMPiS-GOA study): Health Insurance

2022 OCT 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on health insurance have been presented. According to news reporting out of Munich, Germany, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Providing comprehensive stroke care poses major organisational and financial challenges to the German healthcare system. The quasi-randomised TEMPiS-Flying Team (TEMPiS-FIT) study aims to close the gap in the treatment of patients who had ischaemic stroke in rural areas of Southeast Bavaria by flying a team of interventionalists via helicopter directly to patients in the regional TEMPiS hospitals instead of transporting the patients to the next comprehensive stroke centre.”

Financial supporters for this research include German Federal Joint Committee.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Technical University Munich (TU Munich): “The objective of the present paper is to describe the methods for the economic evaluation (TEMPiS-Gesundheitsokonomische Analyse (TEMPiS-GOA)) alongside the TEMPiS-FIT study to determine whether the new form of care is cost-effective compared with standard care. Methods and analysis The within-trial cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-utility analysis (CUA) will be performed from a statutory health insurance perspective as well as from a societal perspective over the time horizon of 12 months after the patients’ hospital discharge. Direct costs from outpatient and inpatient care are collected from routine data of the participating health insurance funds, while medical and non-medical costs from a patient’s perspective are retrieved from primary data collected during the TEMPiS-FIT study and follow-up questionnaires. Results will be presented as incremental cost-effectiveness ratio and incremental cost-utility ratio quantifying the incremental costs and health benefits compared with standard care practice. The outcome of the CEA will be measured in costs per minute reduction in mean process time to thrombectomy. The outcome of the CUA will be presented as costs per quality-adjusted life year gained. Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval for the TEMPiS-FIT study was granted by the Bavarian State Medical Association Ethics Committee (# 17056). Results will be disseminated via reports, presentations of the results in publications and at conferences and on the TEMPiS website.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Trial registration number German Clinical Trials Register DRKS00023885. Registered on 2 July 2021 - retrospectively registered.”

For more information on this research see: Health economic evaluation of the ‘Flying Intervention Team’ as a novel stroke care concept for rural areas: study protocol of the TEMPiS-GOA study. BMJ Open, 2022,12(9). (BMJ Open - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/). The publisher for BMJ Open is BMJ Publishing Group.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-060533.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Leonie Sundmacher, Department of Health Economics, Department of Health Science, Technical University Munich (TU Munich), Munich, Germany. Additional authors for this research include Wiebke Schuttig, Ronja Flemming, Marie Coors, Gordian Jan Hubert, Nikolai Dominik Hubert.

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