 Net Health BenefitsAaron A. Stinnett and John Mullahy Medical Decision Making, 1998, vol. 18, issue 2_suppl, S68-S80 Abstract: In recent years, considerable attention has been devoted to the development of sta tistical methods for the analysis of uncertainty in cost-effectiveness (CE) analysis, with a focus on situations in which the analyst has patient-level data on the costs and health effects of alternative interventions. To date, discussions have focused almost exclu sively on addressing the practical challenges involved in estimating confidence inter vals for CE ratios. However, the general approach of using confidence intervals to convey information about uncertainty around CE ratio estimates suffers from theoretical limitations that render it inappropriate in many situations. The authors present an al ternative framework for analyzing uncertainty in the economic evaluation of health interventions (the "net health benefits" approach) that is more broadly applicable and that avoids some problems of prior methods. This approach offers several practical and theoretical advantages over the analysis of CE ratios, is straightforward to apply, and highlights some important principles in the theoretical underpinnings of CE anal ysis. Key words: cost-effectiveness; net health benefits; uncertainty. (Med Decis Mak ing 1998;18 suppl:S68-S80) Date: 1998 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:medema:v:18:y:1998:i:2_suppl:p:s68-s80 DOI: 10.1177/0272989X98018002S09 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Medical Decision Making |
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