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Letters |15 April 1997

Cost-Effectiveness of Interferon-α as Maintenance Therapy in Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

Michael W. Kattan, PhD; J. Robert Beck, MD

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Because the estimated yearly costs per patient have been shown to differ [1], we do not dispute the assertions of Messori and colleagues that interferon-α treatment may be somewhat more expensive in Germany and Italy than the $1500 figure used as our baseline monthly cost. This uncertainty in cost motivated the sensitivity analysis in our Figure 4. We also agree that $50 000 per QALY seems to be the de facto cutoff for reimbursable therapy.
It seems that the primary reason for this difference in cost of treatment is that our analysis is based on the amount...
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Kattan MW, Beck JR. Cost-Effectiveness of Interferon-α as Maintenance Therapy in Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia. Ann Intern Med. 1997;126:664–665. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-126-8-199704150-00027

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1997;126(8):664-665.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-126-8-199704150-00027

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