ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2010
Comments on "Simoens, S. Health economic assessment: a methodological primer. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2009, 6, 2950-2966"-New Zealand in fact has no cost-effectiveness threshold.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds: the Past, the Present and the Future.PharmacoEconomics · 2018Review
- Comment on "ahead of its time? Reflecting on New Zealand's Pharmac following its 20th anniversary" : clarification from PHARMAC: PHARMAC takes no particular distributive approach (utilitarian or otherwise).PharmacoEconomics · 2014Article
- Identifying priority medicines policy issues for New Zealand: a general inductive study.BMJ open · 2014Article
- Health economic assessment: cost-effectiveness thresholds and other decision criteria.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2010Article
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Abstract
The Journal recently incorrectly ascribed cost-effectiveness thresholds to New Zealand, alongside other countries. New Zealand has no such thresholds when deciding the funding of pharmaceuticals. As we fund pharmaceuticals within a fixed budget, and cost-effectiveness is only one of nine decision criteria used to inform decisions, thresholds cannot be inferred or calculated. Thresholds inadequately account for opportunity cost and affordability, and are incompatible with budgets and maximising health gains. In New Zealand, pharmaceutical investments can only be considered 'cost-effective' when prioritised against other proposals at the time, and threshold levels must inevitably vary with available funds and the other criteria.
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