ArticlePharmacoEconomics1998
The role of cost-consequence analysis in healthcare decision-making.
Article in PharmacoEconomics, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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88 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Cost-consequence analysis of an intervention for the management of neuropsychiatric symptoms in young-onset dementia: Results from the BEYOND-II study.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2020Trial
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- A cost consequence study of the impact of a dermatology-trained practice nurse on the quality of life of primary care patients with eczema and psoriasis.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2000Trial
- A prospective cost-consequence analysis of adding lamivudine to zidovudine-containing antiretroviral treatment regimens for HIV infection in the US.PharmacoEconomics · 1999Trial
- Pharmacogenetics-Guided De-Escalation of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Based on CYP2C19 Testing in Patients After Acute Coronary Syndrome: Clinical Outcomes and Cost-Consequence Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Improving Proactive Primary Health Care After Gestational Diabetes: Protocol for Implementation and Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Collaborative Program in General Practice (GooD4Mum) and Baseline Practice Characteristics.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
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Abstract
A greater understanding of value associated with new pharmaceutical products should lead to better decision-making. Most commonly cost-effectiveness ratios (CERs) are used to indicate value; however, researchers have recently shown that CER estimates are rarely used by decision-makers in making formulary decisions. In this article, a cost-consequence approach to estimating the value for money of a new treatment for a specific disease is described. Using a cost-consequence approach, the impact of the new treatment on lifetime resource use and costs (including specific healthcare service use and costs, and productivity losses) and health outcomes (including disease symptoms, life expectancy and quality of life) for an individual or group of individuals is estimated and presented in a tabular format. The cost-consequence format is more likely to be approachable, readily understandable and applied by healthcare decision-makers than a simple CER. The decision-maker may use selected items from the cost-consequence analysis to compute composite measures of drug value, such as cost per life-year gained or cost per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gained. In general, the cost-consequence approach, by making the impact of the new treatment as comprehensive and transparent as possible, will enable decision-makers to select the components most relevant to their perspective and will also give them confidence that the data are credible to use as the basis for resource allocation decisions.
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