Dealing with Discounting: An Application to the Cost-Effectiveness of Intracoronary Thrombolysis with Streptokinase
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- general essays
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
- Vol. 6 (1) , 139-145
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300008990
Abstract
By introducing discounting in the DEALE method, we reanalyze a recent publication on the cost-effectiveness of early thrombolytic therapy with intracoronary streptokinase after acute myocardial infarction. We show that failure to discount gains in life expectancy results in a serious overestimation of the cost-effectiveness of this technology.Keywords
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