Birth at home generated the greatest mean net monetary benefit with a 100% probability of being the optimal setting across all thresholds of cost effectiveness (varied between £0 and £100 000 for the maternal outcomes of interest).
He argued that there are many different ways to define justice, including protection of the most vulnerable in society, according to Lee, who adds that because medical cost-effectiveness varies so widely, the system is never going to be able to afford to treat everyone at the most expensive level.
44 47 Critically, the cost-effectiveness varies substantially by HCV prevalence, 47 and the estimated US prevalence is higher than that of many other developed countries.
At the same time, by profiling how cost-effectiveness varies with dengue risk, our study may help policy makers identify key target populations for initial immunization.
An additional article demonstrated that cost-effectiveness varies significantly with sex and with age at time of vaccination (Rothberg et al 2007).
As pointed by Hosh JS [ 3] the existence of important sub-groups affects how the cost-effectiveness varies at the margin and need to be accounted for when analyzing and interpreting cost-effectiveness results.
Given that cost-effectiveness varies between patient subgroups, it is sensible for innovators to calculate a menu of prices to determine the patient group in which their intervention is most likely to be cost-effective [ 10, 11].
The CEAC depicts the probability that an intervention is cost-effective at different levels of the cost-effectiveness threshold (in this case, how the probability of cost-effectiveness varies according to how much one is willing to pay to avert one fall) [ 10].
Where HRLAs were effective cost-effectiveness varied considerably: Incremental Cost effectiveness Ratios were estimated at £6,000 for smoking cessation; £14,000 for a telephone based type 2 diabetes management; and £250,000 or greater for promotion of mammography attendance and for HIV prevention amongst drug users.
However, in reality, a technological switch will usually give rise to a phase where the average costs and effects (and consequently the cost-effectiveness) vary and have not yet reached a steady state.
