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The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) is a statistic used in cost-effectiveness analysis to summarise the cost-effectiveness of a health care intervention. It is defined by the difference in cost between two possible interventions, divided by the difference in their effect.
ICER's affordability calculations adjust for drugs targeting prevalent diseases and/or those presenting a significant clinical benefit by setting the threshold at double the available funds divided by the expected number of new drugs (approved by FDA). [1] [2] Since 2016, ICER has valued one quality-adjusted life year as worth $150,000. [7]
The CSR organizes the peer review groups or study sections that evaluate the majority (76%) of the research grant applications sent to NIH. [1] It also receives all grant applications for NIH, as well as for some other components of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Since 1946, its mission has remained clear and ...
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All NIH Institutes and Centers are involved with OSC in the design, implementation, and evaluation of Common Fund programs. [15] commonfund.nih.gov: Office of Technology Transfer: OTT manages the wide range of NIH and FDA intramural inventions as mandated by the Federal Technology Transfer Act and related legislation.
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ICER may refer to: ICER (file format), a wavelet-based image compression file format used by the NASA Mars Rovers; Icer, a character in the Masters of the Universe franchise; Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, a Boston-based nonprofit organization seeking to improve healthcare; Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio
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