<Emphasis Type="Bold">Background: Cost-effectiveness models should always be amendable to updating once new data on important model parameters become available. However, several methods of synthesizing data exist and the choice of method may affect the cost-effectiveness estimates. <Emphasis Type="Bold">Objectives: To investigate the...</emphasis></emphasis>

FFE, FRE and BFE lead to comparable HE outcomes. BRE tends to overestimate uncertainty. Based on this study, we recommend FRE as the preferred method of meta-analysis. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013

Economic evaluations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) incorporate utilities through multi-attribute utility (MAU) measures, most commonly the EQ-5D, to report health-related quality-of-life (HR-QOL) changes or differences. Questions have been raised about the sensitivity of these...

Since the introduction of the cost-effectiveness acceptability curve (CEAC) in 1994, its use as a method to describe uncertainty around incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) has steadily increased. In this paper, first the construction and interpretation of the CEAC is explained, both in...

This paper reports the results of the application of the conjoint measurement method (CM) to determine a monetary value of informal care. Compared to the normally recommended valuation methods, like the opportunity cost method and proxy good method, CM is probably better able to capture the...