LUO Bing,JIANG Yueyun,CHEN Yili.Pharmacoeconomic evaluation of dual antiplatelet therapy followed by maintenance therapy with clopidogrel or aspirin after PCI[J].ZHONGGUO YAOFANG,2025,36(23):2952-2957.
LUO Bing,JIANG Yueyun,CHEN Yili.Pharmacoeconomic evaluation of dual antiplatelet therapy followed by maintenance therapy with clopidogrel or aspirin after PCI[J].ZHONGGUO YAOFANG,2025,36(23):2952-2957. DOI: 10.6039/j.issn.1001-0408.2025.23.12.
Pharmacoeconomic evaluation of dual antiplatelet therapy followed by maintenance therapy with clopidogrel or aspirin after PCI
From the perspective of China’s health system, to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of maintenance therapy with clopidogrel or aspirin monotherapy in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) patients after dual antiplatelet therapy(DAPT).
METHODS
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A Markov model was adopted with a research period of 25 years and a cycle period of 1 year. Cohort simulations were conducted respectively for the clopidogrel group and aspirin group to predict and compare the long-term economic and health outcomes of PCI patients receiving either clopidogrel or aspirin monotherapy maintenance regimens after DAPT, and cost-effectiveness analysis was conducted. The willingness-to-pay (WTP) threshold was set at the level of 1 times China’s per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024[95 749 yuan per quality-adjusted life year (QALY)], and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) was calculated. The robustness of the basic analysis results was verified by using single-factor sensitivity analysis and probabilistic sensitivity analysis.
RESULTS
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After PCI, patients received DAPT, clopidogrel monotherapy maintenance treatment reduced the occurrence of death events, and aspirin monotherapy maintenance treatment had a lower probability of stroke and myocardial infarction events. The ICER of the clopidogrel group regimen compared with the aspirin group regimen was 34 644.87 yuan/QALY, which was less than the WTP threshold set in this study. The results of univariate sensitivity analysis indicated that notable uncertainties affecting the basic analysis results were the probability of event-free progression to death in the aspirin group, the event-free cost in the clopidogrel group, and the event-free cost in the aspirin group. The results of probabilistic sensitivity analysis indicated that when the WTP threshold was 95 749 yuan /QALY, the economic probabilities of the clopidogrel group and the aspirin group were 83% and 17%, respectively. The economic probability of the clopidogrel group regimens showed an upward trend with the increase of the WTP threshold.
CONCLUSIONS
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Compared to aspirin monotherapy for maintenance therapy, under the WTP threshold of 1 times China’s per capita GDP in 2024, receiving clopidogrel monotherapy for maintenance therapy after DAPT in PCI patients is more cost-effective.
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