Table 1 Conventional incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of five new programmes by using five disease-specific comparators
From: Some reflections on the use of inappropriate comparators in CEA
| New healthcare intervention | Disease-specific comparator | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | QALY | Cost | QALY | ICER | Order | |
| \({p}_{1}\) | 30,000 | 0.8 | 28,000 | 0.4 | 5000 | 1 |
| \({p}_{2}\) | 30,000 | 0.8 | 28,000 | 0.7 | 20,000 | 2 |
| \({p}_{3}\) | 30,000 | 0.8 | 12,000 | 0.7 | 180,000 | 3 |
| \({p}_{4}\) | 60,000 | 0.8 | 58,000 | 0.4 | 5000 | 1 |
| \({p}_{5}\) | 90,000 | 0.8 | 88,000 | 0.7 | 20,000 | 2 |