Posted: April 24th, 2015

Health Economics and Finance/ Cost-utility analysis and cost-benefit analysis

Health Economics and Finance/ Cost-utility analysis and cost-benefit analysis

Hand-in Assignment

Treat each of the following
questions as independent headings

1. Briefly explain the main approaches of measuring preference.
2. Sketch the QALY diagram and determine how many QALYs are achieved during the year by the typical patient in a 1-year clinical trial who belongs to the treatment group and has a baseline HUI2 health state of 133111 and a 1-year HUI2 health state of 112111. The typical patient in the control group has a baseline HUI2 health state of 133111, and a 1-year HUI2 health state of 132111. Sketch the QALY diagram for the two patients and determine the QALYs gained over the year for the treatment patient compared to the control patient.
3. If the cost of treatment was USD 4,500 per patient in the treatment group and USD 1,500 per patient in the control group, calculate the ICER.

For this Assignment:

• Use Harvard format for all In-text citations and references.
• All sources must be scholarly and fully referenced (indicate the URL of sources where available).
• I request for plagiarism report.
• Use real life examples where applicable.
• The instructions for this assignment must be strictly adhered to.

Required Resources

• Morris, S., Devlin, N. & Parkin, D. (2012) ‘Chapter 11: Measuring and valuing health care output. In: Economic analysis in health care. 2nd ed. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 253-285.