"If I had to judge the cost-effectiveness of the use of technology in schools by those uses," he said, "I'd be very disappointed".
The Obama administration appears to favour the expenditure of healthcare resources in a way similar to the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence model, which uses supposed experts to judge the cost-effectiveness of therapies, in order to determine which will be reimbursed by the government.
Policymakers are likely to reallocate health care resources in a way that emulates the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence model, which uses supposed experts to judge the cost-effectiveness of therapies to determine which will be reimbursed by the government.
CEAC curves enable decision-makers with different budget constraints to judge the cost-effectiveness of interventions in their setting.
As a result, many HTA programs have established specific criteria with which to judge the cost-effectiveness of orphan drugs.
For instance, in order to judge the cost-effectiveness of the development of a new drug, a measurement of QoL is often needed to financially and ethically justify the intervention.
However, reporting the analysis output as cost per extra week in employment makes it difficult to judge the cost-effectiveness of the intervention, as it is unknown how much members of society (or policy makers) value (and would be willing to pay for) an extra week in employment.
This enables the decision-maker to judge the likely cost-effectiveness of a bundled approach given their preference regarding the use of these devices.
Additional studies will be needed to determine the cost effectiveness of longer-term therapy.
30 There is currently no systematic means of measuring the other clinical benefits associated with analogue insulin, such as rate of symptomatic or nocturnal hypoglycaemia, making it difficult to judge the real-world cost effectiveness of these drugs.
The cost effectiveness of abatacept in women unresponsive to methotrexate was calculated to be $US43 041 per QALY, which falls within the threshold judged to be acceptable by many healthcare providers.
