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.
D
- DominanceSimple Superiority, Strict Cost-Effect Advantage
- A relationship between two interventions in which one is both less costly and more effective, making the other an inferior choice regardless of threshold.
- Dominance AnalysisDominance Screening, Dominated-Option Check
- Dominance analysis identifies interventions that are inferior to another feasible option or to the efficient combination of options on cost and health outcome, leaving a frontier for fully incremental comparison.
E
- Efficiency FrontierEfficient Frontier, Cost-Effect Boundary
- In cost-effectiveness analysis, an efficiency frontier connects the available strategies that remain after excluding options subject to simple or extended dominance.
- Extended DominanceCombination Dominance, Non-Simple Dominance
- A situation where an intervention is not dominated by any single alternative but is inferior to a combination of two other options.
- Extended Dominance AnalysisExtended-Dominance Screening, Weak-Dominance Analysis
- The process of identifying interventions subject to extended dominance by comparing each option's ICER against that of the next most effective alternative.
S
- Strict DominanceSimple Dominance, Absolute Dominance
- A situation where one intervention is unambiguously better than another because it is both less costly and more effective.
W
- Weak DominanceNon-Strict Dominance, Weakly Dominated Option
- A situation where an intervention is inferior not to any single alternative but to a combination of two other available options.