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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2010

Health economic assessment: cost-effectiveness thresholds and other decision criteria.

Steven Simoens

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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 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Steven SimoensResearch Centre for Pharmaceutical Care and Pharmaco-economics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Onderwijs en Navorsing 2, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. steven.simoens@pharm.kuleuven.be

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An article published in this Journal argued that New Zealand does not apply a cost-effectiveness threshold because medicines are funded within a fixed budget and because cost-effectiveness is only one of nine criteria that inform decisions. This Comment has explained that, from a theoretical perspective, the cost-effectiveness threshold model is not inconsistent with these two arguments. The observed annual variation in incremental cost-effectiveness ratios in New Zealand may originate from yearly differences in new medicines that request reimbursement and in the budget size, and from the fact that decision makers take into account other decision criteria in addition to cost-effectiveness.

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Cost-Benefit AnalysisHealth Care CostsDecision MakingNew Zealandcost-effectivenesscost-effectiveness thresholddecision criteriaeconomic evaluationhealth economicsmulti-criteria decision analysisopportunity cost

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PMID20617062
PMCPMC2872336

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