Individualized cost-effectiveness analysis

John P A Ioannidis; Alan M Garber

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001058

Individualized cost-effectiveness analysis

PLoS Med. 2011 Jul;8(7):e1001058. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001058. Epub 2011 Jul 12.

Authors

John P A Ioannidis¹, Alan M Garber

Affiliation

¹ Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America. jioannid@stanford.edu

Abstract

John Ioannidis and Alan Garber discuss how to use incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICER) and related metrics so they can be useful for decision-making at the individual level, whether used by clinicians or individual patients.

MeSH terms

Cost-Benefit Analysis / methods*
Decision Making*
Health Care Costs*
Humans
Models, Econometric