Dictionary
The Dictionary provides concise definitions of health economics terms, arranged alphabetically for quick reference. Use it to understand unfamiliar terminology or confirm the meaning of a specific term.
C
- Cost-Effectiveness FrontierCE Frontier, Cost-Effectiveness Efficiency Frontier, Efficient Frontier in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
- The cost-effectiveness frontier is the boundary of feasible strategies whose expected cost and effect combinations are not ruled out by strict or extended dominance under a specified decision framework.
F
- Fully Incremental AnalysisFull Incremental Analysis, Sequential ICER Analysis
- Fully incremental analysis compares all mutually exclusive strategies in an ordered sequence to identify the cost-effectiveness frontier.
N
- Non-Dominated AlternativeEfficient Option, Frontier Option
- An intervention on the cost-effectiveness frontier, meaning no other option or combination of options is both less costly and more effective.