Aula n.º 8
20 Setembro 2017, 14:30 • Maria Helena Mouriño Silva Nunes
Room: 6.4.34
Duration: 3h
The problem of measuring the burden of disease.
The problem of measuring the burden of disease.
Introduction to cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), the most widely applied tool to guide policy decisions concerning the allocation of healthcare resources. Introduction to the idea that cost-effectiveness studies can be designed to analyse competing interventions incorporating both cost and outcomes. The concept of Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (ICER), which is expressed as incremental cost per incremental gain expressed in some natural unit.