Budget impact analysis of a home-based colorectal cancer screening programme in Malaysia
Objectives The 2020–2022 research project ‘Colorectal Cancer Screening Intervention for Malaysia’ (CRC-SIM) evaluated the implementation of a home-based CRC screening pilot in Segamat District. This budget impact analysis (BIA) assessed the expected changes in health expenditure of the Malaysian Min...
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| author | Michael Donnelly Ciaran O'Neill Tran Thu Ngan Désirée Schliemann Kogila Ramanathan Tin Tin Su Nor Saleha Binti Ibrahim Tamin Muhamad Raziq Bin Mohd Saleh |
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| description | Objectives The 2020–2022 research project ‘Colorectal Cancer Screening Intervention for Malaysia’ (CRC-SIM) evaluated the implementation of a home-based CRC screening pilot in Segamat District. This budget impact analysis (BIA) assessed the expected changes in health expenditure of the Malaysian Ministry of Health budget in the scenario where the pilot programme was implemented nationwide vs current opportunistic screening.Design Budget impact analysis. Assumptions and costs in the opportunistic and novel CRC screening scenarios were derived from a previous evaluation of opportunistic CRC screening in community health clinics across Malaysia and the CRC-SIM research project, respectively.Setting National level (with supplement analysis for district level). The BIA was conducted from the viewpoint of the federal government and estimated the annual financial impact over a period of 5 years.Results The total annual cost of the current practice of opportunistic screening was RM1 584 321 (~I$1 099 460) of which 80% (RM1 274 690 or ~I$884 587) was expended on the provision of opportunistic CRC to adults who availed of the service. Regarding the implementation of national CRC screening programme, the net budget impact in the first year was estimated to be RM107 631 959 (~I$74 692 546) and to reach RM148 485 812 (~I$103 043 589) in the fifth year based on an assumed increased uptake of 5% annually. The costs were calculated to be sensitive to the probability of adults who were contactable, eligible and agreeable to participating in the programme.Conclusions Results from the BIA provided direct and explicit estimates of the budget changes to when implementing a population-based national CRC screening programme to aid decision making by health services planners and commissioners in Malaysia about whether such programme is affordable within given their budget constraint. The study also illustrates the use and value of the BIA approach in low-income and middle-income countries and resource-constrained settings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f9ba760f10624ad3b633b7d1f407d62d2023-08-12T02:45:07ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552023-03-0113310.1136/bmjopen-2022-066925Budget impact analysis of a home-based colorectal cancer screening programme in MalaysiaMichael Donnelly0Ciaran O'Neill1Tran Thu Ngan2Désirée Schliemann3Kogila Ramanathan4Tin Tin Su5Nor Saleha Binti Ibrahim Tamin6Muhamad Raziq Bin Mohd Saleh7Centre for Public Health, Queen`s University Belfast, Belfast, UKCentre for Public Health, Queen`s University Belfast, Belfast, UKCentre for Public Health, Queen`s University Belfast, Belfast, UKCentre for Public Health, Queen`s University Belfast, Belfast, UKGlobal Public Health, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor, MalaysiaSouth East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO), Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University - Malaysia Campus, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, MalaysiaMinistry of Health Malaysia, Putrajaya, MalaysiaSouth East Asia Community Observatory, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor, MalaysiaObjectives The 2020–2022 research project ‘Colorectal Cancer Screening Intervention for Malaysia’ (CRC-SIM) evaluated the implementation of a home-based CRC screening pilot in Segamat District. This budget impact analysis (BIA) assessed the expected changes in health expenditure of the Malaysian Ministry of Health budget in the scenario where the pilot programme was implemented nationwide vs current opportunistic screening.Design Budget impact analysis. Assumptions and costs in the opportunistic and novel CRC screening scenarios were derived from a previous evaluation of opportunistic CRC screening in community health clinics across Malaysia and the CRC-SIM research project, respectively.Setting National level (with supplement analysis for district level). The BIA was conducted from the viewpoint of the federal government and estimated the annual financial impact over a period of 5 years.Results The total annual cost of the current practice of opportunistic screening was RM1 584 321 (~I$1 099 460) of which 80% (RM1 274 690 or ~I$884 587) was expended on the provision of opportunistic CRC to adults who availed of the service. Regarding the implementation of national CRC screening programme, the net budget impact in the first year was estimated to be RM107 631 959 (~I$74 692 546) and to reach RM148 485 812 (~I$103 043 589) in the fifth year based on an assumed increased uptake of 5% annually. The costs were calculated to be sensitive to the probability of adults who were contactable, eligible and agreeable to participating in the programme.Conclusions Results from the BIA provided direct and explicit estimates of the budget changes to when implementing a population-based national CRC screening programme to aid decision making by health services planners and commissioners in Malaysia about whether such programme is affordable within given their budget constraint. The study also illustrates the use and value of the BIA approach in low-income and middle-income countries and resource-constrained settings.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/3/e066925.full |
| spellingShingle | Michael Donnelly Ciaran O'Neill Tran Thu Ngan Désirée Schliemann Kogila Ramanathan Tin Tin Su Nor Saleha Binti Ibrahim Tamin Muhamad Raziq Bin Mohd Saleh Budget impact analysis of a home-based colorectal cancer screening programme in Malaysia BMJ Open |
| title | Budget impact analysis of a home-based colorectal cancer screening programme in Malaysia |
| title_full | Budget impact analysis of a home-based colorectal cancer screening programme in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Budget impact analysis of a home-based colorectal cancer screening programme in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Budget impact analysis of a home-based colorectal cancer screening programme in Malaysia |
| title_short | Budget impact analysis of a home-based colorectal cancer screening programme in Malaysia |
| title_sort | budget impact analysis of a home based colorectal cancer screening programme in malaysia |
| url | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/3/e066925.full |
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