Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7388835 | Value in Health | 2018 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Some cost-effective interventions that have large waiting lists may indicate resource misallocation and the threshold may be too high. An evidence-informed revision of the threshold may require a reduction to ensure it is consistent with its theoretical basis in the opportunity cost of other interventions foregone. A limitation of this study was the difficulty in matching specific procedures from waiting lists with ICER estimates from the literature. Nevertheless, our study represents a useful demonstration of a novel concept of using waiting list data to inform cost-effectiveness thresholds.
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Authors
Tse Chiang MSc, Dane MA, SÃofra Murphy, Katie Lockhart, James PhD,