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ArticleThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2019

When is it too expensive? Cost-effectiveness thresholds and health care decision-making.

Werner Brouwer, Pieter van Baal, Job van Exel, Matthijs Versteegh

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Article in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

55 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  12. Monetary value of health-a practical decision-making framework combining equity considerations and WTP.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025
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  17. The role of budget impact and its relationship with cost-effectiveness in reimbursement decisions on health technologies in the Netherlands.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2024
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  20. VOLY: The Monetary Value of a Life-Year at the End of Patients' Lives.Applied health economics and health policy · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Werner BrouwerErasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM), Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. brouwer@eshpm.eur.nl.
Pieter van BaalErasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM), Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Job van ExelErasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM), Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Matthijs VersteeghInstitute for Medical Technology Assessment, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Cost-Benefit AnalysisDecision Making, OrganizationalBiomedical TechnologyHumansModels, EconomicPolitics

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