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    "textoCompleto" => "<span class="elsevierStyleSections"><span id="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0065">Introduction</span><p id="par0005" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Primary immune thrombocytopenia&#44; also known as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura &#40;ITP&#41;&#44; is an acquired autoimmune disease characterised by isolated thrombocytopenia&#44; with a peripheral platelet count &#60;100<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#215;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>10<span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span>&#47;L&#46; Diagnosis of ITP is made by exclusion when there are no other identifiable causes&#46; The disease is characterised by increased platelet destruction mediated by autoantibodies and a deficiency in their production&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> Although incidence rates vary widely in the published literature&#44; ITP is generally considered a rare disease&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> In recent publications&#44; an incidence of 3&#46;9 for every 100&#44;000 persons&#47;year is estimated&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2&#44;3</span></a> The number of affected persons is small&#44; and patients with platelet counts higher than 50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#215;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>10<span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span>&#47;L rarely need treatment<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a>&#59; however&#44; this disorder may have major clinical and economic consequences&#44; especially those related to haemorrhages and the deterioration of quality of life &#40;QoL&#41;&#46; Although many patients experience no symptoms or only minor haematomas&#44; other cases may experience severe haemorrhages that may be intracranial&#44; gastrointestinal or extensive mucocutaneous haemorrhages&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> In addition&#44; the physical symptoms are the main factor involved in the deterioration of QoL&#44; and patients with ITP obtain bad scores on scales that assess aspects such as discomfort&#44; psychological symptoms&#44; fear&#44; reduced social activity or reduced ability to work&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#44;5</span></a></p><p id="par0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Corticosteroids &#40;occasionally administered together with intravenous immunoglobulin &#91;IV Ig&#93;&#41; are the standard first-line of treatment&#59; however&#44; in refractory patients or patients with relapses&#44; the second-line treatment was preferably limited to splenectomy until a few years ago&#46;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Romiplostim is a thrombopoietin receptor agonist indicated for splenectomised adult patients with chronic ITP who are refractory to other medications &#40;such as corticosteroids and IV Ig&#41;&#44; or as a second-line treatment for non-splenectomised adult patients for whom surgery is contraindicated&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> Thrombopoietin receptor agonists increase platelet production through the activation of the thrombopoietin receptor&#44; which is the key mediator of platelet production&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1&#44;7</span></a> Rituximab&#44; a chimeric anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody&#44; is indicated in adult patients with non-Hodgkin&#39;s lymphoma&#44; chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and rheumatoid arthritis&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> and&#44; although it is not indicated in the manufacturer&#39;s technical data sheet&#44; it is frequently used as a second-line treatment in adults with ITP&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1&#44;7</span></a> Its main mechanism of action is characterised by a depletion of B lymphocytes with CD20&#43;&#44; which are involved in platelet destruction&#44; mediated by immune mechanisms through the production of antiplatelet autoantibodies&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It has been reported that the treatment of chronic ITP in adults is expensive&#44; particularly in patients with a severe form of the disease&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> At present&#44; the cost-consequence ratio of romiplostim and rituximab in patients with ITP in Spain is unknown&#46; This has prompted us to conduct this analysis in order to assess clinical and economic implications and&#44; in particular&#44; to estimate the response rate and cost per patient for these two agents&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0070">Methods</span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0075">Structure of the economic model</span><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A cost-consequence model was designed &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41; to compare the total direct costs of patients treated with romiplostim and rituximab&#46; The parameters of the model considered drug costs&#44; treatment duration&#44; effectiveness of therapeutic alternatives and the use of healthcare resources&#46; The cost-consequence analysis was chosen to present the results in a disaggregated manner&#44; which allows the observer to independently assign the importance of the consequences for each alternative&#46; These analyses are becoming more highly appreciated and are being applied more often in countries where the number of health technology assessments are increasing&#59; in addition&#44; they are usually more comprehensible to healthcare decision-makers compared to other types of pharmacoeconomic analyses&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> The model was developed from the perspective of the Spanish National Healthcare System&#59; therefore&#44; only direct health costs were considered&#46; The results and costs of patients &#40;refractory to the first-line treatment&#41; treated with romiplostim or rituximab were assessed&#46; Splenectomy was not considered a third alternative in the decision-making process&#44; since those patients&#44; who were suitable candidates for splenectomy&#44; would already have undergone the procedure&#46; The analysis aimed at assessing the costs associated with each treatment intervention&#44; including drug costs&#44; medical visits&#44; laboratory tests and costs related to treatments for bleeding-related episodes &#40;BRE&#41; in patients who did not respond&#46; The proportion of patients whose platelet response was attributable to either of the treatments was determined 8 weeks following the start of treatment&#44; based on international treatment guidelines&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> As described by Weitz et al&#46;&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> based on a pooled data analysis of the romiplostim and placebo groups in the pivotal romiplostim trials&#44; the patients who did not respond experienced BREs&#44; which agglutinated the patients with bleeding episodes and those who needed rescue medication&#46; The severity of a BRE was defined by the need for hospitalisation and the use of rescue medication&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> The BREs were classified as ambulatory BREs and BREs that required hospitalisation&#46; For the 18-week period contemplated in the model &#40;the period in which patients were classified depending on whether or not they responded to the treatment&#41;&#44; the risk of BREs was calculated using the number of BREs and the number of weeks per patient of follow-up&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a></p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0080">Clinical information</span><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">To obtain the platelet response &#40;defined as &#8805;50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#215;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>10<span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>platelets&#47;L<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a>&#41;&#44; duration of the response&#44; sample size&#44; security profile&#44; stratification among splenectomised and non-splenectomised patients and the characteristics of the population&#44; a systematic review of the medical literature was performed with the aim of identifying randomised&#44; controlled&#44; phase III clinical trials of rituximab and romiplostim in the treatment of adult patients with ITP published from 2000 to January 2011&#46; The databases consulted for the review of the medical literature were MEDLINE&#44; EMBASE&#44; EMBASE Alert&#44; BIOSIS Previews&#44; Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials&#44; Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews&#44; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects&#44; Derwent Drug File&#44; Health Technology Assessment Database and SciSearch&#46; Clinical trials&#44; comparative studies&#44; observational studies&#44; systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in English were included&#46; The keywords used in the search of the medical literature appear in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table 1</a>&#46; Two independent reviewers &#40;along with a third reviewer for conflict resolution&#41; assessed the titles&#44; abstracts and articles retrieved from searches and excluded irrelevant publications based on the following exclusion criteria&#58; publications not about ITP&#59; those related to immune thrombocytopenia secondary to a disease&#44; non-specific for rituximab or romiplostim&#59; reports that were not published in the English language&#59; paediatric studies&#59; publications of case reports&#47;letters to the publisher with no abstracts available&#59; duplicate publications&#59; laboratory research&#59; and economic studies or studies on QoL&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0005"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0085">Economic information</span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0090">Use of drugs</span><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The romiplostim dosage consisted of one subcutaneous injection of 250<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#956;g once a week until a response to treatment was observed&#46; The rituximab dosage consisted of a cycle of four weekly doses of 375<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg&#47;m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span>&#46; The required doses for each drug were estimated based on an average patient weight of 76&#46;23<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>kg<span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span> and height of 161&#46;57<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>cm&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> resulting in a body surface area &#40;calculated according to the DuBois and DuBois formula<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a>&#41; of 1&#46;81<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span>&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A sustained platelet response is not always obtained after the first cycle of rituximab&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> In a retrospective study of patients with ITP performed at a hospital in France&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> 28&#46;57&#37; of the responder patients and 36&#46;36&#37; of the patients who did not respond to rituximab received an additional cycle of this drug&#46; Based on that study&#44; a second cycle of rituximab with the mentioned percentages was administered 6 months after the beginning of the treatment in this model&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0095">Use of medical resources</span><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table 2</a> shows the details of the frequency of visits to health professionals&#44; the laboratory tests and the visits for the administration of romiplostim and rituximab&#46; The frequency of BREs&#44; required treatments and their costs are summarised in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0015">Table 3</a>&#46; The unit costs of these resources were obtained from Spanish official reimbursement lists &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#tbl0010">Tables 2 and 3</a>&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15&#8211;21</span></a> The model excluded the costs of adverse effect &#40;AE&#41; treatment due to the limited evidence available on AE rates and their minimum impact estimated on global results&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0010"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0015"></elsevierMultimedia></span></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0100">Results of the model</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The results of the model estimated the average cost per patient with ITP and the average cost per responder patient for each arm of the treatment&#46; The costs included the interventions that patients underwent as well as those related to the lack of response&#46; The results were stratified by splenectomised and non-splenectomised patients&#44; and they were defined by categories of resources used &#40;for example&#44; drug costs&#44; drug administration costs&#44; office visits&#44; tests&#44; etc&#46;&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0020">Table 4</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0020"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0105">Sensitivity analysis</span><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Sensitivity analyses were conducted to evaluate the effects of the potential variability of the platelet response with both drugs and the treatment patterns with rituximab&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0005"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0005"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">1&#46;</span><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Platelet response to romiplostim and rituximab&#44; variable at &#177;10&#37;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0010"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2&#46;</span><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Percentage of patients with an additional cycle of rituximab in a 6-month period&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0010"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0015"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">a&#46;</span><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">0&#37; of patients received a second cycle of rituximab&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0020"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">b&#46;</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">28&#46;57&#37; of patients with response and 56&#46;27&#37;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">22</span></a> of patients without response received a second cycle of rituximab&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0025"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">c&#46;</span><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">28&#46;57&#37; of patients with response and 0&#37; of patients without response received a second cycle of rituximab&#46;</p></li></ul></p></li></ul></p></span></span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0110">Results</span><span id="sec0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0115">Systematic review of the clinical data found in the medical literature</span><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">From a total of 478 identified publications&#44; we selected 80 studies about rituximab and 26 about romiplostim&#44; according to the aforementioned inclusion&#47;exclusion criteria&#46;</p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The effectiveness data for romiplostim were obtained from 2 phase III randomised controlled trials&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a> Overall platelet response was 79&#37; in the splenectomised patients &#40;n<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>42&#41;&#44; 88&#37; in the non-splenectomised patients &#40;n<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>41&#41; and 83&#37; in the total of patients &#40;splenectomised and non-splenectomised&#59; n<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>83&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0025">Table 5</a>&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a> The overall platelet response was defined as the sum of all the transitory and sustained response rates &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0025">Table 5</a>&#41;&#46; The response was considered a overall platelet response when&#44; after 24 weeks of observation&#44; the platelet count &#8805;50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#215;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>10<span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>platelets&#47;L was sustained for a minimum of 4 weeks&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0025"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A systematic review of the medical literature did not identify any phase III randomised controlled clinical trials for rituximab&#46; Since the systematic review of Arnold et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">24</span></a> provided the most consistent data &#40;it included effectiveness results from studies that considered overall platelet response to be platelet counts &#62;50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#215;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>10<span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span>&#47;L&#41;&#44; it was selected for the information on rituximab effectiveness&#46; The 62&#46;5&#37; overall response rate&#44; with a mean response duration of 10&#46;5 months&#44; was based on the pooled effectiveness data of 313 patients from 19 studies &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0025">Table 5</a>&#41;&#46; The review by Arnold et al&#46; did not give details of the platelet response rates separately for splenectomised and non-splenectomised patients&#46; Therefore&#44; the analysis assumed that both subgroups had the same response rate to rituximab &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0025">Table 5</a>&#41;&#46; Based on the selected studies and on the most solid comparable data available on the effectiveness of romiplostim and rituximab&#44; the most adequate time horizon established for the model was 6 months&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0120">Analysis of mean cost per responder patient</span><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">For the total population &#40;splenectomised and non-splenectomised patients&#41;&#44; mean cost per patient after 6 months of treatment was &#8364;16&#44;289 and &#8364;13&#44;459 for romiplostim and rituximab&#44; respectively &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0020">Table 4</a>&#41;&#46; The use of romiplostim reduced the costs of drug administration&#44; hospitalisations related to BRE and the use of IV Ig compared to rituximab&#46;</p><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The mean cost per responder patient was 10&#37; more in patients treated with rituximab than in those treated with romiplostim &#40;&#8364;21&#44;535 and &#8364;19&#44;625&#44; respectively&#41;&#46; This increase in cost was mainly due to an inferior response rate to rituximab &#40;62&#46;5 in contrast with the 83&#37; response to romiplostim&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In splenectomised patients&#44; the treatment costs were similar for romiplostim and rituximab&#46; The cost of rituximab per responder patient was 6&#37; higher&#46; In non-splenectomised patients&#44; the rituximab treatment cost per responder patient was 14&#37; higher&#46; In addition to the purchase costs of the drug&#44; the main components of the total costs were drug administration costs&#44; the use of IV Ig and BRE-related hospitalisations for patients without response &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0020">Table 4</a>&#41;&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0065" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0125">Sensitivity analysis</span><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Sensitivity analyses were performed to assess the effects of variability on the efficacy of romiplostim and rituximab and retreatment patterns with rituximab&#46; These sensitivity analyses showed that&#44; although the results could be sensitive to the platelet response rates and to the percentage of patients who received additional cycles of rituximab&#44; the results of the model were generally solid&#46; The average cost per responder patient remained&#44; in general&#44; higher for rituximab compared with romiplostim &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0030">Table 6</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0030"></elsevierMultimedia></span></span><span id="sec0070" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0130">Discussion</span><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The results of this pharmacoeconomic analysis show that the highest rate of response associated with romiplostim produces a lower cost per responder patient compared with rituximab treatment in adult patients with ITP in Spain&#46; In addition&#44; the use of romiplostim reduces the cost of administering the drug&#44; the BRE-related hospitalisations and the use of IV Ig compared with rituximab&#59; the costs associated with treating BREs were responsible for a greater cost increase between both treatments&#46; Therefore&#44; it is possible to state that the cost of treatment per responder patient is lower with the thrombopoietin agonist mainly due to its greater efficacy &#40;83&#37; with romiplostim versus 62&#46;5&#37; with rituximab&#41;&#44; and secondarily&#44; to a lower incidence of haemorrhagic complications and coadjuvant treatments &#40;Ig&#44; hospitalisations and other health resources&#41;&#46; The results of the model are consistent with the recent cost analysis conducted by Khellaf et al&#46;&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> which showed the impact hospitalisations and the use of IV Ig can have on total treatment costs in patients with ITP&#46; In this study&#44; the annual mean cost per patient was &#8364;7293 for the overall population&#44; although it could increase up to &#8364;15&#44;334 and &#8364;26&#44;581 in groups of patients with at least one hospitalisation or hospitalisation with use of IV Ig&#44; respectively&#46; In these subgroups&#44; 33&#37; and 43&#37; of the costs were produced by IV Ig administration&#46; In a similar way&#44; Brosa et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">25</span></a> concluded that the cost by response to treatment is much lower in the patients treated with romiplostim compared to patients who were given placebo and concurrent treatment&#46; An analysis between rituximab and romiplostim in a 6-month time-frame conducted in France also determined a lower cost per response to romiplostim from the perspective of the French national health system&#46; This supports the results presented in this analysis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">26</span></a> The results of the study are also supported by another pharmacoeconomic analysis that assesses the cost-effectiveness ratio of romiplostim in the treatment of adult patients with ITP compared with eltrombopag or the standard treatment&#44; including rituximab&#44; which shows the dominance of romiplostim in those comparisons&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0135"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">27</span></a></p><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The results of the model may vary due to the potential need to administer one or two cycles of rituximab for early relapses or a lack of response&#46; Several studies show that additional cycles of rituximab may be necessary to maintain a sustained platelet response&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14&#44;28</span></a> Therefore&#44; if the cost analyses were to consider only one dose of rituximab&#44; the results may not reflect the true patterns of current treatments and&#44; consequently&#44; the estimated cost would be lower than the supposedly actual cost&#46; Brah et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> specified that 28&#46;57&#37; of the relapsed patients after an initial response to rituximab&#44; and 36&#46;36&#37; of non-responder patients should receive a second cycle of rituximab&#46; This data agree with the opinion of the experts who validated the assumptions of the model&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0145"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">29</span></a> Nevertheless&#44; it is important to note that treatment practices are evolving with the availability of thrombopoietin analogues&#44; which could result in the reduction of additional cycles of rituximab&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0145"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">29</span></a> The response rate to rituximab has a greater impact in the cost per responder patient than the percentage of patients who receive a second cycle of rituximab&#46; Since the response rate assumed for rituximab was conservative&#44; from the perspective of romiplostim&#44; favouring rituximab&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">24</span></a> and although the results were sensitive to the percentage of rituximab patients who received a second cycle of the treatment&#44; it can be considered that the pharmacoeconomic analysis between romiplostim and rituximab is solid&#46;</p><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The analysis has limitations because of the heterogeneity of the studies and the definition of the global response used to support the solidity of the efficacy variables of romiplostim and rituximab&#46; The variables for romiplostim were obtained from phase III clinical trials&#44; whereas the variables for rituximab were obtained from a systematic review of the medical literature&#46; Although the systematic review of the specialised literature did not identify any phase III randomised controlled clinical trials for rituximab&#44; it did identify a phase II single-arm trial<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">28</span></a> and two systematic reviews of the medical literature&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">24&#44;30</span></a> which provided valid response rates for the design of the model&#46; Based on the higher consistency of the data&#44; those data related to efficacy were selected from the systematic review conducted by Arnold et al&#46;&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">24</span></a> which defined the overall platelet response as a platelet count &#62;50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#215;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>10<span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span>&#47;L&#46; A meta-analysis recently published by Auger et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0155"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">31</span></a> in non-splenectomised patients supports the selected data&#46; Although Arnold et al&#46; provided the most solid efficacy data for the rituximab group&#44; it is important to point out the differences between the studies considered for romiplostim and for rituximab&#46; Unlike the pivotal analyses for romiplostim&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a> there is no detailed information provided for rituximab about the frequency of platelet response measurements&#59; for that reason&#44; it is not clear whether the platelet count was evaluated once or multiple times to determine the response of rituximab&#46; This lack of comparable data is a consequence of the heterogeneous platelet response definitions and the population characteristics between the romiplostim and rituximab studies&#44; which would probably result in criteria discrepancies when assessing patient characteristics&#44; clinical results and platelet responses&#46; These discrepancies were already pointed out in a report made by Rodeghiero et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0160"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">32</span></a></p><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Since data from prospective trials usually differs from real clinical practice&#44; and with the purpose of considering the peculiarities of each country&#44; the analysis used real clinical practice data based on medical literature<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11&#44;23&#44;24</span></a> and on the opinion of experts&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0145"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">29</span></a> It is important to consider not only the heterogeneity among patients&#44; but also the variability in the clinical practices of different practitioners&#46; The sensitivity analyses incorporated to assess these parameters demonstrate that&#44; as a whole&#44; the results of the model are solid&#46; In addition&#44; the model did not include all the costs that could potentially be evaluated&#46; For example&#44; it did not consider the possible severe adverse events derived from the use of rituximab or romiplostim&#44; which may have led to additional use of resources&#46; As mentioned before&#44; it is difficult to make direct and accurate comparisons of these events between treatments and&#44; for that reason&#44; they were excluded from the analysis&#46; However&#44; there was a greater possibility that the inclusion of adverse events would be more detrimental for the rituximab results than for the romiplostim results&#46;</p><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Finally&#44; it must be noted that the analysis establishes a time-frame of 6 months for treatment and&#44; 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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">37&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">113&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">113&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">671&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">2062&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">2062&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">2062&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">13&#44;459</span>&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">13&#44;459</span>&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">79&#37;&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">18&#44;833</span>&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">Overall platelet response&#58; The rate of sustained response<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#43;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>the rate of transient response&#46; Sustained response&#58; 6 or more platelet responses per week &#40;platelet count &#8805;50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#215;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>10<span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span>&#47;L&#41; during the last 8 weeks of the treatment&#46;Transient response&#58; 4 or more platelet responses per week in the absence of a sustained response between week 2 and week 25&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">Kuter et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a>&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">Note&#58; Mean time until response was 5&#46;5 weeks&#59; the duration of the mean response was 10&#46;5 months&#59; the median follow-up was 9&#46;5 months&#46;&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="left" valign="top">Responder patients 28&#46;57&#37;&#59; non-responder patients 36&#46;36&#37;&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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