Robotic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of 1–3 Brain Metastases: A Pragmatic Application of Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Willingness-To-Pay

With the emergence of radiosurgery as a new radiotherapeutic technique, health care decision makers are required to incorporate community need, cost and patient preferences when allocating radiosurgery resources. Conventional patient utility measures would not reflect short term preferences and would therefore not inform decision makers when allocating radiosurgery treatment units. The goal of this article is to demonstrate the feasibility of …