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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2007 Sep 29;120(5):1146–1152. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2007.07.055

TABLE II.

Base-case analysis over 10-year time horizon

Omalizumab + ICS
Asthma-related events (per person-year)
 Hospitalizations 0.31
 ED visits 0.46
 Urgent care visits 2.17
 Discounted QAM 80.01
Costs, discounted
 Chronic asthma cost without drug ($) 7300
 Acute asthma cost ($) 380
 Drug cost ($) 123,000
 Total cost ($) 131,000
Cost-effectiveness ratios*
 Cost per QALY gained ($/QALY) 821,000
 Cost per SFD gained ($/SFD) 120

SFD, Symptom-free day.

*

All cost-effectiveness ratios are incremental compared with the nextleast-costly, undominated alternative. Reported ratios might not be precisely equal to the ratio of costs and effects because of rounding.