Skip to main content
. 2021 Jun 8;30(5):577–586. doi: 10.1038/s41431-021-00916-8

Table 1.

Economic evaluation results.

Analyses Costs (AU$) Diagnostic yield (%) Incremental cost (AU$) Incremental yield (%) ICER (AU$) Incremental WTP (AU$) Net benefit (AU$)
Approach 1a
Genomic sequencing 6757 38 −1997 11 Dominant 5890 7887
Conventional care 8754 27
Late genomic sequencing 12,366 33
Approach 1b
ES ± mtDNA 6406 33
GS 7170 44 764 11 6945 425 −339
Conventional care 8754 27 Dominated
Late ES ± mtDNA 12,067 28 Dominated
Late GS 12,719 38 Dominated
Approach 2
Genomic sequencing 9387 38 −8823 14 Dominant 5890 14,713
Conventional care 18,210 24

ES±mtDNA exome sequencing followed by mitochondrial DNA sequencing if a molecular diagnosis is not made, GS genome sequencing, ICER incremental cost-effectiveness ratio, WTP willingness-to-pay.