Cost-Consequence Balance-Sheet Explorer

Compare two health options without combining unlike outcomes into a single score. Change the values, uncertainty ranges and analytical perspective to see how the balance sheet changes.

Interpretation safeguard: A cost-consequence analysis displays separate results. It does not supply an automatic decision rule or show how much importance a decision maker should attach to each outcome.

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Analytical perspective

Disaggregated evidence

Enter results for current care and the new programme. The difference is new programme minus current care. Enter the lower and upper limits for that difference in the same unit as the row.

ResultUnitPreferred directionCurrent careNew programmeDifferenceLower limitUpper limitInterpretation

Balance-sheet summary

Explore the decision

Find a case in which the new programme improves most outcomes but still creates a difficult decision. Which results drive the tension, and what additional evidence would you want before choosing an option?

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Method, assumptions and limitations

Calculation: Difference = New programme result − Current care result. A negative difference favours the option with the lower value when “Lower” is preferred. A positive difference favours the option with the higher value when “Higher” is preferred.

The example values are synthetic. Results are per participant over one year unless the row states otherwise. The healthcare-system perspective displays healthcare resource costs. The societal perspective also displays patient travel and time.

An uncertainty interval that crosses zero is marked direction uncertain. This is a simple directional check, not a probability statement or statistical-significance test. A real analysis must define its population, alternatives, perspective, time horizon, resource-use sources, unit costs, price year, evidence sources, uncertainty methods, distributional effects and missing outcomes.

Do not add the rows together. Costs, admissions, days, proportions and hours do not share a common unit. Related outcomes may overlap, and this explorer does not apply stakeholder weights, value unmonetised outcomes, determine affordability or replace deliberation.