Will Americans allow their government, either directly or through an independent agency like NICE, to decide which treatments are sufficiently cost-effective to be provided at public expense and which are not?
Trials had shown the drug extends life for women with incurable breast cancer by at least six months, but in April 2014, the government's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), which decides whether drugs are sufficiently cost-effective to be used in the NHS, turned it down.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which decides whether treatments are sufficiently cost-effective for the NHS, will, he thinks, reject most or all of them.Patients can understand that some drugs cost too much for the taxpayer to finance.
We found that, if nuclear energy is excluded as a mitigation option, CCS can be sufficiently cost-effective in 2020 to avoid 29 Mt per year in 2020 in the Dutch electricity sector (which is half of the CO2 emission abatement necessary in this year).
The solution to this problem is to use stereoscopic fundus photography, which was considered by the ENSP not to be sufficiently cost-effective or reliable outside of the context of international grading centres and clinical trials.
Only with a considerable reduction in the costs of NIPT may this approach become sufficiently cost-effective.
RNA-seq is expected to become sufficiently cost-effective and practical that it will eventually supersede microarray technologies.
For example, a new therapy may be effective, but CPG developers need to consider whether it is available (and sufficiently cost-effective) for disadvantaged populations.
Interventions should ideally fit multiple tiers of a public health system and be sufficiently cost-effective for large youth populations in various socio-cultural contexts.
Although the MSP seem sufficiently cost-effective, we have to realize that 29% of the tumours were not detected by screening.
