As shown in Fig. 6, transforming factor reflects the process of integration of energy-intensive industries, while penetration factor represents the acceptability of providing AS for power system.
The uncertainty surrounding the decision to adopt a given treatment option as a cost-effective treatment at different levels of willingness to pay will be represented in acceptability curves.
Five hospitals in England were selected to participate in the study to test reliability, validity and acceptability, representing a range in terms of urban and rural locality, teaching and non-teaching hospitals and foundation trust status.
The cost effectiveness acceptability frontier representing screening and isolation strategies was split into five sections (fig 5).
These values can be plotted in a risk-benefit acceptability curve, representing the probability of the intervention being risk-beneficial for a range of RBAT values.
Figures 4 and 5 present results of probabilistic sensitivity analyses using cost-effectiveness acceptability curves representing cost per episode of diarrhea and case of anemia averted, from the societal perspective.
The overall uncertainty of the ICER is represented by the acceptability curve shown in Figure 3.
Using R-package BCEA [ 56], the results were visualized in a cost-effectiveness plane and a cost-effectiveness acceptability curve (CEAC) representing the probability that one intervention scenario is more cost-effective than the others for a range of WTPs.
Although cost effectiveness acceptability curves are valuable for representing the degree of uncertainty in an optimal strategy, they contain insufficient information for good decision making; identifying the strategy with the highest expected net monetary benefit is more useful.
Although not all included trials examined the acceptability and compliance of the interventions, low compliance and acceptability can represent potential limitations of the included trials.
Based on this assumption, a 0.5-mm black triangle represented the threshold of acceptability in the younger group, whereas in the older group, 1.5 mm was the limit of acceptability.
