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Results of the adult economic evaluation<br />
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500<br />
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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