Table 3

Incremental cost effectiveness for high, medium and low levels of therapists' involvement (in € per PD-free survival over 3 months)

High

Medium

Low


Incremental

• costs

€797

€422

€237

• effects

0.12

0.09

0.06

Incremental cost/effect*

• median ICER

€6,198

€3,792

€2,511

• upper bound

60,731

40,513

8

• lower bound

2,435

-39,306

-26,548


* Median ICER = 50th percentile of the 2,500 bootstrap replications of the ICER

lower and upper bounds = 2.5th and 95.5th percentiles of the bootstrap distribution.

Smit et al. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2009 7:8   doi:10.1186/1478-7547-7-8

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