Individualized cost-effectiveness analysis
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Individualized cost-effectiveness analysis
Abstract
John Ioannidis and Alan Garber discuss how to use incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICER) and related metrics so they can be useful for decision-making at the individual level, whether used by clinicians or individual patients.
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