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Table 1 Treatment-specific transition probabilities for CHB to cured and CHB to inactive carrier transitions

From: Telbivudine for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B in HBeAg-positive patients in China: a health economic analysis

Treatment strategy

CHB to cured and CHB to inactive carrier transitions

First-year reactivation probability (transition from inactive carrier to CHB)

CHB to cured (%)

Source

CHB to inactive carrier (%)

Source

 

Source

LAM

0.7

Zhang et al. (2015)

24.1

Zhang et al. (2015)

0.175

Hou et al. (2008, 2015)

LDT

0.7

33.3

0.075

ADV

1.3

18.3

0.04

Hou et al. (2015)

ETV

1.4

25.6

0

Yuen et al. (2011)

TDF

0.7

Conservative assumption made for the least effective treatment amongst monotherapies (i.e. LAM/LDT)

15.5

Hou et al. (2008)

0

Hou et al. (2015)

LDT + ADV

0.7

Sun et al. (2014)

35.7

Sun et al. (2014) and Zhang et al. (2015) [derived using LDT and LDT + ADV ratio from Sun et al. (2014)]

0.01

Sun et al. (2014) and Zhang et al. (2015) [derived using LDT and LDT + ADV ratio from Sun et al. (2014)]

LDT + TDF

4.4

Piratvisuth et al. (2013) and Zhang et al. (2015) [derived using LDT and LDT + TDF ratio from Piratvisuth et al. (2013)]

6.1

Piratvisuth et al. (2013) and Zhang et al. (2015) [derived using LDT and LDT + TDF ratio from Piratvisuth et al. (2013)]

0

Piratvisuth et al. (2013)

No treatment

0.7

Assumed to be equal to the least effective treatment (i.e. LDT/LAM)

9.0

Shepherd et al. (2006)

0.03

Shepherd et al. (2006)

  1. ADV adefovir dipivoxil, BSC best supportive care, CHB chronic hepatitis B, ETV entecavir, LAM lamivudine, LDT telbivudine, TDF tenofovir