Quiz No. 2 Introduction To Economic Evaluations II
- 1.What type of question is a pragmatic randomized controlled clinical trial intended to answer?
- A.
An efficacy question
- B.
An effectiveness question
- C.
An efficiency question
- D.
An equity question
- 2.What type of question is a traditional randomized controlled clinical trial intended to answer?
- A.
An efficacy question
- B.
An effectiveness question
- C.
An efficiency question
- D.
An equity question
- 3.What type of question is a cost-effectiveness study intended to answer?
- A.
An efficacy question
- B.
An effectiveness question
- C.
An efficiency question
- D.
An equity question
- 4.In what situations is it advisable to use a measure of compound benefit in an economic evaluation?
- A.
When interventions have multiple relevant consequences
- B.
When interested in obtaining a result that is comparable to unrelated alternatives that do not share consequences
- C.
When survival as well as quality of life or the disability that survival entails are relevant
- D.
All of the above
- 5.Which of the following statements is correct with regard to DALYs?
- A.
They only consider premature deaths due to a condition.
- B.
They are the sum of the costs of treatment of a condition.
- C.
They express the number of life years lost due to disease, disability or premature death.
- D.
They express life years adjusted for quality of life.
- E.
All of the above
- 6.The time horizon of an economic evaluation of vaccines that measure results in DALY should be the entire life expectancy of the subjects.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.The importance of discounting in economic evaluations is that inflation should be incorporated in this type of studies.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Which of the following aspects will influence the results of an economic evaluation through its influence on the discounting process?
- A.
The time horizon
- B.
The discount rate
- C.
Differences in the time/year in which interventions compared are conducted
- D.
All of the above
- 9.Read the following statement from a hypothetical study conducted in a country with a per capita GDP of $4,000. Then answer questions 9 and 10. The cost-effectiveness of the pneumococcal vaccine ranged from $5,000 to $15,000 per DALY averted when the uncertainty associated with the incidence of pneumonia in the population (mean: 5 per thousand; range based on a 95% CI 3 to 7 per thousand) was evaluated. What is being reported in this paragraph?
- A.
The main results
- B.
Deterministic sensitivity analysis
- C.
Structural sensitivity analysis
- D.
Probabilistic sensitivity analysis
- 10.What conclusion can be inferred from this paragraph regarding the new technology?
- A.
It is not cost-effective.
- B.
It is very cost-effective.
- C.
No conclusions can be drawn due to uncertainty.
- D.
It is cost-effective despite the uncertainty.
- E.
It is not cost-effective.
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