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Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis

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Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis (DCEA) is an extension of standard cost-effectiveness analysis that incorporates concern for both the average levels of outcomes as well as the distribution of outcomes, particularly useful when evaluating interventions to tackle health inequality.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Asaria, M; Griffin, S; Cookson, R; Whyte, S; Tappenden, P (June 2015). "Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis of health care programmes--a methodological case study of the UK Bowel Cancer Screening Programme". Health economics. 24 (6): 742–54. PMID 24798212.
  2. ^ Asaria, M; Griffin, S; Cookson, R (January 2016). "Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Tutorial". Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 36 (1): 8–19. PMID 25908564.