Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Peripheral Nerve Field Stimulation as Add-On Therapy to Spinal Cord Stimulation in the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain in Failed Back Surgery Syndrome Patients.
Eric-Jan J A A van GorpEddy M M AdangIsmail GültunaTanja E Hamm-FaberKatja BürgerJan Willem KallewaardJohannes W C L SchapendonkLeon VonhögenEwald BronkhorstOnno P TeernstraKris C P VissersPublished in: Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society (2019)
From a Dutch national health-care context, when the willingness to pay threshold is up to 60.000 Euros per QALY, PNFS as an add-on therapy to SCS for the treatment of low back pain in FBSS patients has a high probability of being cost-effective.