Cost-effective but clinically inappropriate: new NICE intervention thresholds in osteoporosis (Technology Appraisal 464).

N C HarveyE McCloskeyJohn A KanisJ CompstonC Cooper

Published in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2018)

Cost-effectiveness thresholds for low-cost interventions should not be used to set intervention thresholds but rather to validate the implementation of clinically driven intervention thresholds.

Keyphrases

randomized controlled trial
low cost
healthcare
primary care
postmenopausal women
bone mineral density
body composition