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COST-UTILITY ANALYSIS EXERCISE
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Consider four mutually exclusive medical treatments, A, B, C, and D. The discounted accumulated social costs are respectively 100, 120, 150, and 200 m.u. Benefits are counted in terms of the average Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs), compared to the current treatment, which costs 90 and achieves an average of 5 QALY. The benefits of the new treatments are 10, 15, 12, and 9. Estimate the relevant Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (CER) and Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (ICER), and rank the locations accordingly using different threshold values per QALY.
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Most desirable location: ______ , CER: ______
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Second most desirable location: ______ , CER: ______
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Least desirable location: ______ , CER: ______
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