Table 1.

Conventional incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of five new programmes by using five disease-specific comparators

New healthcare intervention			Disease-specific comparator
	Cost	QALY	Cost	QALY	ICER	Order
$p_1$	30,000	0.8	28,000	0.4	5000	1
$p_2$	30,000	0.8	28,000	0.7	20,000	2
$p_3$	30,000	0.8	12,000	0.7	180,000	3
$p_4$	60,000	0.8	58,000	0.4	5000	1
$p_5$	90,000	0.8	88,000	0.7	20,000	2