Journal article
Opportunity costs and uncertainty in the economic evaluation of health care interventions
Abstract
Considerable methodological research has been conducted on handling uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis. The current literature suggests the concepts of net health benefits and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves to circumvent the technical shortcomings of cost-effectiveness ratio statistics. However, these approaches do not provide a solution for the inherent problem that the threshold cost-effectiveness ratio itself is unknown. The …
Authors
Sendi P; Gafni A; Birch S
Journal
Health Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 23–31
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
January 2002
DOI
10.1002/hec.641
ISSN
1057-9230