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. 2016 Mar 9;11(3):e0150032. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150032

Table 2. Difference in restricted mean survival time and ICER according to the survival analysis method.

Survival methods Difference in restricted mean survival time (in month) [95% CI] Mean ICER (cost per life year gained) [95% CI]
Approach 1 Peto-quintiles 1.7 [0.4–3.1] € 34,934 [12,506–98,066]
Peto-year 1.8 [0.5–3.0] € 33,387 [13,512–75,753]
Stewart-Parmar 2.1 [0.6–3.5] € 29,017 [11,822–68,206]
Naive Kaplan-Meier 2.2 [0.6–3.7] € 26,848 [11,152–68,297]
Peto-month 2.3 [0.7–3.9] € 28,022 [10,563–61,608]
Approach 2 Pooled Kaplan-Meier 2.3 [0.7–3.8] € 25,527 [10,355–66,289]
Pooled Exponential 2.5 [0.7–4.2] € 24,299 [9,584–59,119]

CI: confidence interval; ICER: Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio; rmstD: difference in restricted mean survival time