Table 3.
The different types of economic evaluation
| Cost–benefit analysis (CBA) | Effects are measured in monetary units |
| Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA)i | Effects are measured in any other unit of effect, e.g. deaths averted, jobs saved, treatment responders, units of a patient-reported outcome measure, … |
| Cost-utility analysis (CUA) | Effects are measured in QALYs (or less commonly DALYs), which are utilities summed over time |
| Cost-minimisation analysis (CMA) | Effects are not considered, just costs alone |
iCEA is also known as cost-consequences analysis