We also report incremental cost effectiveness ratios where these measures are relevant that is, in evaluating mutually exclusive interventions that represent competing choices.
When we compare mutually exclusive interventions within a cluster, we also describe incremental cost effectiveness ratios, which were based on the net costs and net effects of an intervention compared with the next most effective, non-dominated intervention.
Where mutually exclusive interventions are funded under different program budgets, decision-makers may consider only options within their ambit, failing to identify more cost-effective options outside their program area.
After evaluating related interventions with respect to the null set of related interventions, the G-CEA model requires that independent sets of mutually exclusive interventions be ordered in increasing order of cost per unit of outcome, before applying standard decision rules for constrained maximisation.
Indeed, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has been identified as having the greatest potential impact of any single intervention on under-5 mortality [ 20].
13 22 25 Tai Chi was the exclusive exercise intervention in two of the studies 26 27; the rest of the interventions included a gait, balance, and functional training component.
A DAM is a mathematical method of synthesising evidence on the outcomes and costs of alternative, mutually exclusive, healthcare interventions [ 10].
For the development of fall frequency and functional fitness, planned comparisons did not show any significant contrasts between the simultaneous cognitive physical and exclusive physical interventions.
Most decision modeling to date in medicine has focused on the problem of identifying optimal decisions of use of new healthcare technology when confronted with alternative (usually mutually exclusive) healthcare interventions.
The study included multimodal treatment modalities such as exercise, and thus the results cannot with certainty be exclusive of manual intervention.
