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Secondary hypotheses are that, relative to control patients, intervention patients will have higher rates of treatment completion, fewer unplanned hospital visits, shorter lengths of stay, lower depression, higher quality of life and more quality adjusted life years.

A cost effectiveness study comparing CT, endoscopic ultrasound with fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA), PET and thoracoscopy/laparoscopy in patients with esophageal cancer found that the combination of CT and EUS-FNA was the most inexpensive strategy and offered more quality adjusted life-years, on average, than all other strategies except for PET and EUS-FNA.

A cost effectiveness study comparing CT, EUS with fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA), PET and thoracoscopy/laparoscopy found that CT plus EUS-FNA was the most inexpensive strategy and offered more quality adjusted life-years, on average, than all other strategies except for PET plus EUS-FNA[ 39 ].

We hypothesised that over a one year period patients receiving the preventive primary care outreach intervention compared with control patients would have more quality adjusted life years, higher functional status and self rated health, lower mortality, and similar costs of health and social services.

A recently published cost effectiveness study comparing CT, EUS with fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA), PET and thoracoscopy/laparoscopy found that the combination of CT plus EUS-FNA was the most inexpensive strategy and offered more quality adjusted life-years, on average, than all other strategies except for PET plus EUS-FNA[ 1 ].

In a previous study of classic age related macular degeneration, it was estimated that ranibizumab would have to be 40% more effective at preventing visual loss than bevacizumab to justify the marginal costs and achieve no more than £30 000 per quality adjusted life year.

Summing costs and outcomes over five years post-treatment, breast conservation and radiation cost more than $200,000 per quality adjusted life year saved (QALY) compared to mastectomy.

In the UKBEAM trial a class based exercise programme with and without spinal manipulation was evaluated: the combined treatment offered good value, but exercise alone was less cost effective as it cost more and produced fewer quality adjusted life years (QALYs).

The development of a survival probability tool or more sophisticated tools to estimate gain of quality adjusted life years would enable the development and implementation of more objective guidance for patients on the potential benefits of renal transplantation.

To date, however, there is no study yielding empirical data on a more general effectiveness measure such as quality adjusted life years.

The evidence comprised published economic analyses, which compare costs and benefits (in terms of quality adjusted life years) between two or more interventions.