The Treatment Inventory of Costs in Psychiatric patients (TiC-P) will be applied to collect input data on costs.
We assessed a) the impact of changes in underlying analytical choices (such as whether to discount health gains or not), b) the influence of specific input parameters on costs and effects (such as drug prices and disability weights), and c) the potential variability around total costs and effects of different interventions.
Probabilistic simulations were carried out to account for the effect of uncertainty regarding the model inputs on cost-effectiveness.
Probabilistic simulations were undertaken to account for the effect of uncertainty in the model inputs on cost-effectiveness; 20,000 simulations were performed, simultaneously varying the following parameters for all four procedures: procedural death, recurrence rates, complications rates, quality of life and treatment cost.
Finally, we examined the effect of variations in important inputs on the cost-effectiveness of IPC in all 70 countries grouped in order of cost-effectiveness.
In order to explore the combined impact of all uncertainties in the model inputs on the cost-effectiveness, a probabilistic sensitivity analysis (PSA) was conducted.
The financial and non-financial incentives attached to the results will also vary, both in their absolute amounts and their potential importance to the recipient organizations, depending on other sources of available financing, on the availability of other inputs, on the cost of doing business and relative pay of health workers.
"Historically, retailers have been good at passing on input costs to customers and we think they will do that again if food inflation comes back.
"Although lower energy and commodity prices are easing the pressure on input costs, company liquidations seem certain to surge over the coming months, given the likely depth and length of the recession," it said.
Higher commodity and oil prices were having an effect on input costs, which increased for manufacturers and retailers in most districts, while the ability to pass on those costs to consumers varied.
