The 'ICER' is a well-known measure to assess the extra cost to invest to win one QALY. In Belgium, unofficially 35 000 € / QALY gained is often applied as benchmark, the 'willingness to pay' (WTP). But does the payer invest the budget in function of the potential medical need or not ?
How to indicate if an innovation is worthwhile to pay for in view of the claimed benefit it will bring? The goal of the NMB is to compare two interventions by subtracting the NMB of ‘intervention A’ from the NMB of ‘intervention B’, resulting in the incremental NMB (iNMB).
Quality of life (QoL) in our field of expertise is expressed in ‘utilities’. When performing health economic assessments, the delta utility between 2 clinical settings is measured. Be vigilant, though: the way the QoL is assessed in your study needs to be analysed carefully. In our blog we address some potential difficulties you may encounter.
