An economic analysis of usual care and acupuncture collaborative treatment on chronic low back pain: A Markov model decision analysis

Table 3 Parameter values and distributions examined in sensitivity analyses

Variable groups	Name (Citation)	'Live' value	Probabilistic	Deterministic	Standard error	Distribution	alpha	beta
Transition probability(Tp) variables	tATC [21]	0.24	0.04	0.24	28.773	Gamma/Normal	29	91
	tATW [21]	0.76	0.13	0.76	86.328	Gamma/Normal	91	29
	tWTC [22]	0.16	0.04	0.16	28.410	Gamma/Normal	26	137
	tWTW [22]	0.84	0.21	0.84	159.883	Gamma/Normal	137	26
	tCTW [31]	0.35	0.32	0.35	0.024	Beta	135	252
Resource cost parameters	cUC [41]	507,776 KRW	543,520 KRW	494,071 KRW	507,776 KRW	Gamma	24.69	20566.20
	cACUC [41]	730,329KRW	706,676 KRW	682,759 KRW	730,329 KRW	Gamma	19.54	37372.18
Utility of Markov states per cycles	uALBP [3]	0.85	0.95	0.85	0.15	Beta	3.97	0.70
	uCLBPUC [5]	0.62	0.68	0.62	0.10	Beta	13.99	8.57
	uCLBPACUC [5]	0.65	0.70	0.65	0.10	Beta	14.14	7.61
	uWell [3]	0.96	0.93	0.96	0.04	Beta	22.08	0.92
Recovery rate of chronic LBP	tRR (Fig. 2)	1.40	1.31	1.40		Log normal	0.34 (Ln-mean)	0.05 (Ln-SE)

TP parameters
tATC: TP acute LBP to chronic LBP state, tATW: TP acute LBP to Well state, tWTC: TP Well to chronic LBP state, tWTW: TP Well to Well state, tCTW: TP chronic LBP to Well state, Resource costs parameters
cUC: costs used in chronic LBP state treated by usual care, cACUC: costs used in chronic LBP state treated by collaborationUtility parameters
uALBP: QOL of acute LBP state, uCLBPUC: QOL of chronic LBP state treated by usual care, uCLBPACUC: QOL of chronic LBP state treated by collaboration, uWell: QOL of Well stateRecovery rate
tRR: risk ratio of TP from chronic LBP to the Well state when treated by the collaboration compared with the usual care

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