title: Cost-effectiveness analysis for clinicians.
abstract: In a climate of economic uncertainty, cost effectiveness analysis is a potentially important tool for making choices about health care interventions. Methods for such analyses are well established, but the results need to be interpreted carefully and are subject to bias. Making decisions based on results of cost-effectiveness analyses can involve setting thresholds, but for individual patients, there needs to be disaggregation of benefits and harms included in a quality adjusted life year to ensure appropriate consideration of benefits and harms as well as personal preferences and circumstances.
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization, 20 Ave Appia, Geneva 27, Switzerland. suzannerhill@gmail.com
authors.forename: Suzanne R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis / Q000379:methods; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D057240:Patient Preference; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D057285:Precision Medicine; D019057:Quality-Adjusted Life Years