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Economics

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER)

ICER is an economic evaluation technique. This compares the cost and the clinical effect of 2 or more alternative interventions, potential competitors and generally mutually exclusive, for certain for which one is better from an economic standpoint Economic and clinical. The economic evaluation technique chosen depends on the nature of the benefits that will be studied. In the case of CEA, the benefits are expressed in terms nonmonetary us related to the effects of therapeutic alternatives in health, and can be done as the cure rate, percent of patients who achieved a certain level of cost ...