Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 12.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2012 Aug 16;367(7):595–605. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1201637

Figure 1. Effect of various modeling assumptions on QALYs gained in comparison with the base model (56 QALYs gained).

Figure 1

The assumptions are: 1) no overdiagnosis, 2) screen attendance of 50% and 100%, 3) all unfavorable and favorable utility estimates, 4) utility estimate of 0.93 and 1 for the life-time post-recovery period, 5) utility estimate of 0.86 and 0.24 for palliative therapy, and 6) the utility estimates for the post-recovery period (0.95) and palliative therapy (0.6) as used in the base model combined with the unfavorable and favorable utility estimates of all other health states.