Considerable methodological research has been conducted on handling uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis. The current literature suggests the concepts of net health benefits and cost-effectiveness accepta-bility curves to circumvent the technical shortcomings of cost-effectiveness ratio...

The inclusion of economic evaluations as part of clinical trials has led to concerns about the adequacy of trial sample size to support such analysis. The analytical tool of cost-effectiveness analysis is the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), which is compared with a threshold value...

There is currently much international interest in principles and processes for determining which services should qualify for health insurance packages. However, there has yet been little analysis of the implications of actual deinsurance decisions made by such priority-setting exercises. This...