Table 3.

Incremental costs, effects, and cost-effectiveness ratio from health care and societal perspectives.

Perspective		Incremental cost (€a)	Incremental effects (QALYb)	Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (€/QALY)
Health care perspective
	Discounted (3% for both costs and effects)	50,924.53	1.734	29,366.92
	Nondiscounted	87,807.06	3.315	26,484.27
Societal perspective
	Discounted (3% for both costs and effects)	48,178.53	1.734	27,783.38
	Nondiscounted	83,181.81	3.315	25,089.21

^aAn exchange rate of approximately €1 to US $1.20 is applicable at the time of publication.

^bQALY: quality-adjusted life-year.