Yes but they've got funding now why would they spend millions just to actually see if the product works?
I'm not saying they're out of keeping with reality, but I would say that they are, similarly to the study, misleading, because it's a case of comparing Virta to another effective treatment, not care as usual/nothing
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For example, we are currently applying for grant funding to run a trial similar to DiRECT, and our cost per patient/year including supplying all meal replacement and drugs comes out somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of the cost of Virta including study costs
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The current Virta economics are basically comparing Virta with their control - no treatment What would they look like if they were compared to another, cheaper, intensive lifestyle control program? There's one at the hospital I work at that's run at a fraction of the cost
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