Avaliação de custo-utilidade no tratamento do glaucoma

Abstract

This work has as objective to study and to evaluate the impact of the treatments of glaucoma in Brazil, through a review of cost-effectiveness of different treatment strategies. The cost-effectiveness study was done through Markov modeling. The data (costs, utilities and probabilities) used in the construction of the model were obtained from the literature and by analyzing a database of patients in glaucoma treatment at this very moment and registered by the researcher. The perspective of the costs used was the SUS (Sistema Unico de Saude - National Health System). It was expected to find the most cost-effective strategies for each level of the glaucoma found in the patients and indicate its implementation in reference centers.