Wednesday, January 2, 2019

The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER)

The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) is used to summarise the cost-effectiveness of a health care intervention
It is defined by the difference in cost between two possible interventions, divided by the difference in their effect
It represents the average incremental cost associated with one additional unit of the measure of effect
The ICER can be estimated as:
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