Research Article

Early Economic Evaluation Demonstrates That Noncomputerized Tomography Robotic-Assisted Surgery Is Cost-Effective in Patients Undergoing Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty at High-Volume Orthopaedic Centres

Table 3

Structural and one-way sensitivity analysis.

ParameterCost per QALY

Base case£2,831
All age groups£3,353
Age <55Non-CT r-UKA dominating
Age 65–74£6,578
Age >75£10,283
Males£3,373
Females£2,332
2-year follow-up£33,704
7-year follow-upNon-CT r-UKA dominating
Revision probability lower value£3,686
Revision probability upper value£2,039
Non-CT r-UKA effectiveness lower value£2,358
Non-CT r-UKA effectiveness upper value£3,520
Discount rate lower value£690
Discount rate upper value£2,831
Cost of robotics/case lower value£1,157
Cost of robotics/case upper value£5,676

Non-CT r-UKA: noncomputerized tomography robotic-assisted unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.