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58<br />

Results of the adult economic evaluation<br />

600<br />

500<br />

400<br />

300<br />

200<br />

100<br />

0<br />

Willingness to pay (£)<br />

< 250 250–500 501–1000 1001–2000 > 2000<br />

Monthly household income (£)<br />

FIGURE 7 Willingness to pay <strong>for</strong> induction anaesthesia versus<br />

monthly household income (limit 5% and 95% percentiles) in the<br />

adult study<br />

TABLE 36 ICERs with respect to propofol/isoflurane in the adult study<br />

Sevoflurane/sevoflurane was dominated. As the<br />

cost increases, so does effectiveness, although it<br />

must be noted that these differences in effectiveness<br />

are not statistically significant.<br />

No statistically significant differences were found<br />

in the rate of PONV between propofol/propofol,<br />

propofol/sevoflurane and propofol/isoflurane. If<br />

this is because the regimens were equivalent, then<br />

the least costly of these alternatives is likely to be<br />

the most cost-effective. In this analysis, that would<br />

be propofol induction followed by isoflurane<br />

maintenance anaesthesia.<br />

600<br />

500<br />

400<br />

300<br />

200<br />

100<br />

0<br />

Willingness to pay (£)<br />

< 250 250–500 501–1000 1001–2000 > 2000<br />

Monthly household income (£)<br />

FIGURE 8 Willingness to pay <strong>for</strong> maintenance anaesthesia<br />

versus monthly household income (limit 5% and 95% percentiles)<br />

in the adult study<br />

Anaesthetic regimen Total variable cost <strong>for</strong> No. of patients ICER per PONV instance<br />

the group (mean cost with PONV avoided (£)<br />

per patient) (£)<br />

Propofol/propofol 5591.5 (21.1) 37 (14.0%) 296<br />

Propofol/sevoflurane 3864.0 (13.8) 46 (16.4%) 333<br />

Propofol/isoflurane 1975.8 (7.4) 49 (18.4%) –<br />

Sevoflurane/sevoflurane 3840.3 (15.3) 75 (29.9%) Dominated<br />

Sensitivity analysis<br />

Uncertainty: CESA RCT data<br />

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios<br />

Table 37 shows the results of a deterministic sensitivity<br />

analysis on the observed rate of PONV. The<br />

modelled baseline values <strong>for</strong> the ICERs closely<br />

match the values from the empirical study. The two<br />

sets of values do not match exactly due to arithmetic<br />

rounding. This sensitivity analysis shows that<br />

the rank order of the ICERS is robust in terms of<br />

the observed rate of PONV. However, given that<br />

the low rate of PONV <strong>for</strong> each arm was used

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