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An Efficient, Noniterative Method of Identifying the Cost-Effectiveness Frontier.


ABSTRACT: Cost-effectiveness analysis aims to identify treatments and policies that maximize benefits subject to resource constraints. However, the conventional process of identifying the efficient frontier (i.e., the set of potentially cost-effective options) can be algorithmically inefficient, especially when considering a policy problem with many alternative options or when performing an extensive suite of sensitivity analyses for which the efficient frontier must be found for each. Here, we describe an alternative one-pass algorithm that is conceptually simple, easier to implement, and potentially faster for situations that challenge the conventional approach. Our algorithm accomplishes this by exploiting the relationship between the net monetary benefit and the cost-effectiveness plane. To facilitate further evaluation and use of this approach, we also provide scripts in R and Matlab that implement our method and can be used to identify efficient frontiers for any decision problem.

SUBMITTER: Suen SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4626430 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An Efficient, Noniterative Method of Identifying the Cost-Effectiveness Frontier.

Suen Sze-chuan SC   Goldhaber-Fiebert Jeremy D JD  

Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making 20150429 1


Cost-effectiveness analysis aims to identify treatments and policies that maximize benefits subject to resource constraints. However, the conventional process of identifying the efficient frontier (i.e., the set of potentially cost-effective options) can be algorithmically inefficient, especially when considering a policy problem with many alternative options or when performing an extensive suite of sensitivity analyses for which the efficient frontier must be found for each. Here, we describe a  ...[more]

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