Journal article
Information Created to Evade Reality (ICER)
Abstract
Cost-effectiveness analysis has been advocated in the health economics methods literature and adopted in a growing number of jurisdictions as an evidence base for decision makers charged with maximising health gains from available resources.This paper critically appraises the information generated by cost-effectiveness analysis, in particular the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER). It is shown that this ratio is used as comparative …
Authors
Birch S; Gafni A
Journal
PharmacoEconomics, Vol. 24, No. 11, pp. 1121–1131
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
11 2006
DOI
10.2165/00019053-200624110-00008
ISSN
1170-7690