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IQWiG presents a method for evaluating the relation between cost and benefit
Date:11/30/2009

he costs of achieving a particular additional benefit from a new therapy compared to existing alternatives.

The Australian institute first considers only the direct costs incurred in the health sector in connection with the particular disease. Further financial repercussions, such as the impact on caregiving or on productivity, are presented in supplementary analyses. IQWiG also focuses primarily on the perspective of the SHI community.

Like IQWiG, the PBAC also uses clinical outcomes such as mortality or quality of life. While our British colleagues work more or less exclusively with QALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Years), in Australia these are used with restrictions. The QALY unit is used to offset extended life against the quality of life of the patient. However, after 15 years' experience, the Australian institute has warned that there is a high price to pay for carrying out general therapeutic comparisons using QALYs. The utility weightings required for this are often based on many ambiguous assumptions. This introduces more potential uncertainty into the health economic assessment than would be the case with clinical outcomes.

Draft versions of the Methods have been widely discussed

Together with national and international experts, IQWiG has worked on the methods for about two years. All stakeholders in the German health care system were given the opportunity to contribute constructive criticism and comments at several stages of the submission of comments procedures. "The discussion of our draft methods took up a lot of time. But if one wants a transparent process where industry, health insurance funds, physicians, hospitals, patients, and politicians all have ample opportunity to participate in hearings, then you have to accept that it will take time", explains Peter Sawicki. It was necessary to take different approaches, both the medical and economic perspective as well as that of law and ethics. According to the Di
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Contact: Dr. Anna-Sabine Ernst
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49-022-135-6850
Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
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