Economic Evaluation of Endoscopic Versus Open Vein Harvest for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Lars Oddershede, MMS, Jan J. Andreasen, MD, PhD, Barbara C. Brocki, PT, Lars Ehlers, MS, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 93, Issue 4, Pages 1174-1180 (April 2012) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.01.029 Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 The cost-effectiveness acceptability curves display the uncertainty in results from the cost-effectiveness analysis (A) and the cost-utility analysis (B). Each curve displays the probability of endoscopic vein harvesting being cost-effective at a given willingness-to-pay (WTP). When WTP for an additional quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) or avoiding 1 purulent infection is increased the method′s probability of being cost-effective increases. (CEA = cost-effectiveness analysis; CUA = cost-utility analysis; ICER = incremental cost-effectiveness ratio.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2012 93, 1174-1180DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.01.029) Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions