Overall, the model supported the cost effectiveness of lenalidomide therapy compared with best supportive care (including EPO) when accounting for potential increases in quality of life.
This health economic analysis supports the cost effectiveness of ticagrelor compared with branded clopidogrel in Thailand.
Limited US data available supports the cost effectiveness of 82Rb PET MPI when used consistently in patients with intermediate pre-test likelihood of disease [38]; comparable studies are still needed in the European setting, to establish the financial value or impact of 82Rb for conventional MPI and the potential added value of routine quantification of MBF.
However, some evidence supports the cost effectiveness of donepezil when unpaid caregiver costs are included to reflect community-based clinical practice.
In contrast, there is level 3 evidence from a matched case control study, which also did not include informal care costs, supporting the cost effectiveness of donepezil (Hill et al. 2002).
Evidence supporting the cost effectiveness of universal screening is mixed (Yonkers et al. 2009; Mitchell and Coyne 2009), with some studies showing that lack of access to treatment undermines the cost effectiveness of universal screening (Paulden et al. 2009), as does offering treatment to women who do not need it or to those who do not want it (Dowswell et al. 2010).
When looking at the comparison between RPT and TAU, findings from the completers' analysis did not support the cost-effectiveness of the FDA-recommended intervention, as the average incremental effect for QALY was negative.
9 Inclusion of these additional beneficial effects for the same set of costs would further support the cost-effectiveness of the programme.
These findings support the cost-effectiveness of the percutaneous approach to removal of renal calculi.
Likewise, in their economic evaluation within a RCT, Karantana et al. [17] found no evidence to support the cost-effectiveness, from the perspective of the National Health Service (NHS), of fixation using a volar locking plate over percutaneous fixation for dorsally displaced distal radial fractures.
