Health Economic Assessment: Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds and Other Decision Criteria

Health Economic Assessment: Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds and Other Decision Criteria

An article published in this Journal argued that New Zealand does not apply a cost-effectiveness threshold because medicines are funded within a fixed budget and because cost-effectiveness is only one of nine criteria that inform decisions. This Comment has explained that, from a theoretical perspective, the cost-effectiveness threshold model is not inconsistent with these two arguments. The ob...

Use of cost-effectiveness analysis in health-care resource allocation decision-making: how are cost-effectiveness thresholds expected to emerge?

BACKGROUND An increasing number of health-care systems, both public and private, such as managed-care organizations, are adopting results from cost-effectiveness (CE) analysis as one of the measures to inform decisions on allocation of health-care resources. It is expected that thresholds for CE ratios may be established for the acceptance of reimbursement or formulary listing. OBJECTIVE This...

Cost-effectiveness thresholds and the Brazilian Unified National Health System.

Correspondence H. M. D. Novaes Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Dr. Arnaldo 455, 2o andar, São Paulo, SP 01246-903, Brasil. [email protected] The Brazilian Senate is currently reviewing Bill of Law n. 415 of 2015 (PLS 415; http://www25. senado.leg.br/web/atividade/materias/-/materia/122071), which requires defining, regulating, and publishing the cost-effectiveness parameter used for analyzing requ...

Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds in Global Health: Taking a Multisectoral Perspective.

Good health is a function of a range of biological, environmental, behavioral, and social factors. The consumption of quality health care services is therefore only a part of how good health is produced. Although few would argue with this, the economic framework used to allocate resources to optimize population health is applied in a way that constrains the analyst and the decision maker to hea...

Multiple Decision Criteria for Assessing An Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio of Expensive Health Technologies.