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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2018

Cost-effectiveness analyses of genetic and genomic diagnostic tests.

Katherine Payne, Sean P Gavan, Stuart J Wright, Alexander J Thompson

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed, 9 pooled it
41.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 132 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Systematic review of the evidence on the cost-effectiveness of pharmacogenomics-guided treatment for cardiovascular diseases.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2020
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  12. Mastering genetics for your clinic: A step-by-step guide.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2025
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  16. How is Value Defined in Molecular Testing in Cancer? A Scoping Review.Applied health economics and health policy · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Katherine PayneManchester Centre for Health Economics, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Sean P GavanManchester Centre for Health Economics, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Stuart J WrightManchester Centre for Health Economics, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Alexander J ThompsonManchester Centre for Health Economics, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Manchester Academic Health Science Centre · GBUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/M01665X/1Medical Research Council MR/N00583X/1Wellcome Trust 203405/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developments in next-generation sequencing technologies have driven the clinical application of diagnostic tests that interrogate the whole genome, which offer the chance to diagnose rare inherited diseases or inform the targeting of therapies. New genomic diagnostic tests compete with traditional approaches to diagnosis, including the genetic testing of single genes and other clinical strategies, for finite health-care budgets. In this context, decision analytic model-based cost-effectiveness analysis is a useful method to help evaluate the costs versus consequences of introducing new health-care interventions. This Perspective presents key methodological, technical, practical and organizational challenges that must be considered by decision-makers responsible for the allocation of health-care resources to obtain robust and timely information about the relative cost-effectiveness of the increasing numbers of emerging genomic tests.

Indexed as

Genetic TestingGenomicsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingCost-Benefit AnalysisHumans

Identifiers

PMID29353875
OpenAlexW2785301912

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Registered trials

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