Sentence examples for value of a ceiling from inspiring English sources

Please see Figure 1 for charts 1 and 2 below show the probability that the cost per year of life expectancy gained, or the cost per year of quality adjusted life expectancy gained, is below any given value of a ceiling ratio (a willingness to pay).

However, apart from few situations with a clearly dominant intervention (less effective and more costly or more effective and less costly) compared to alternatives, most interventions will present a situation in which there is a need of a threshold value, a ceiling that the decision maker is willing to pay as a good value for money.

Identifying what intervention is cost-effective compared to an alternative is an important piece of information, and we have now seen that even if one does not know the true value of the ceiling ratio, using a cost-effectiveness acceptability curve it is possible to show the level of uncertainty surrounding the estimated ICER.

The first is to reduce the value of f (t)·g (t) and the second is to increase the value of the ceiling κ.

In addition, net monetary benefit (NMB) was calculated to determine the intervention which gave the maximum expected NMB for each value of the ceiling ratio (i.e., the value of society's willingness to pay (WTP) for an intervention giving one QALY gained).

Mainly due to lower indirect costs this analysis showed a decrease of the difference in total costs between the intervention groups from €612 to €121, whereby the cost-effectiveness ratio for perceived recovery decreased from €19,773 to €2,876, and the value of the ceiling ratio of 50%-probability that AMT is cost effective to recover one patient after 26 weeks decreased from €20,000 to €2,800.

3– 5 However, rather than relying on such an arbitrary ceiling threshold, the value of a QALY estimated in terms of a society's willingness to pay (WTP) per QALY should be adopted as the ceiling threshold.

These values reached a ceiling when performances dropped.

A lower preoperative value allows for a greater chance of improvement and less of a ceiling effect.

If the value of an ICER is below the ceiling ratio, an intervention is deemed acceptable on grounds of cost-effectiveness.

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