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1Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA. hkwang@virginia.edu
Abstract:
With medical costs escalating over recent years, cost analysis is being conducted more and more to assess economic impact of new treatment options. An incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) is a measure that assesses the additional cost for a new treatment for each additional unit of effectiveness, such as saving 1 year of life. In this article, we consider cost-effectiveness analysis for new treatments evaluated in a randomized clinical trial setting with staggered entries. In particular, the censoring times are different for cost and survival data. We propose a method for estimating the ICER and obtaining its confidence interval when differential censoring exists. Simulation experiments are conducted to evaluate our proposed method. We also apply our methods to a clinical trial example comparing the cost-effectiveness of implanted defibrillators with conventional therapy for individuals with reduced left ventricular function after myocardial infarction.
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