Journal article
Incorporation of uncertainty in health economic modelling studies
Abstract
In a recent leading article in PharmacoEconomics, Nuijten described some methods for incorporating uncertainty into health economic models and for utilising the information on uncertainty regarding the cost effectiveness of a therapy in resource allocation decision-making. His proposals are found to suffer from serious flaws in statistical and health economic reasoning.Nuijten’s suggestions for incorporating uncertainty: (a) wrongly interpret …
Authors
O’Hagan A; McCabe C; Akehurst R; Brennan A; Briggs A; Claxton K; Fenwick E; Fryback D; Sculpher M; Spiegelhalter D
Journal
PharmacoEconomics, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 529–536
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
June 2005
DOI
10.2165/00019053-200523060-00001
ISSN
1170-7690