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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Genet Metab. 2011 Jul 12;104(3):383–389. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2011.07.007

Table 5.

Estimated threshold values of variables given different societal willingness to pay per QALY

Willingness to pay per QALY
Variable $25,000 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000
incidence 0.0000149 0.0000086 0.0000051 0.0000039
cost of
screening
test		 $3.62 $8.46 $18.14 $27.82
cost of
diagnostic
test		 $189.80 $673.81 $1641.80 $2609.80
specificity 0.992 0.973 0.934 0.896
sensitivity 0.99 0.610 0.329 0.228