11. Economic Evaluations
Published Online: 10 SEP 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9780470840481.ch11
Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Book Title
Quality of Life Outcomes in Clinical Trials and Health-Care Evaluation: A Practical Guide to Analysis and Interpretation
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How to Cite
Walters, S. J. (2009) Economic Evaluations, in Quality of Life Outcomes in Clinical Trials and Health-Care Evaluation: A Practical Guide to Analysis and Interpretation, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470840481.ch11
Publication History
- Published Online: 10 SEP 2009
- Published Print: 25 SEP 2009
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Print ISBN: 9780470753828
Online ISBN: 9780470686140
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Keywords:
- health economic evaluation techniques;
- utility- or preference-based QoL measures and quality-adjusted life years;
- United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE);
- economic evaluation - assessing costs and benefits of alternative health-care interventions;
- quality-adjusted life year (QALY);
- health state utility or preference value - numbers between 0.0 (death) and 1.0 (full health or with no adverse symptoms);
- economic evaluations alongside pragmatic randomized controlled trials (EEACTs);
- cost–effectiveness analysis (CEA) and CEA acceptability curves;
- cost–utility analysis and cost–utility ratios;
- cost–effectiveness acceptability curve for acupuncture trial data
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Summary
Introduction
Economic evaluations
Utilities and QALYs
Economic evaluations alongside a controlled trial
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Cost–effectiveness ratios
Cost–utility analysis and cost–utility ratios
Incremental cost per QALY
The problem of negative (and positive) incremental cost–effectiveness ratios
Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves
Further reading