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] | |
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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