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ICERs in the lower left indicating less health gain from CBT-E at lower costs. While TAU dominates CBT-E in the upper left quadrant, CBT-E dominates TAU with better effects at lower costs in the lower right quadrant. The scatter plot of ICERs in more than one quadrant indicates uncertainty about whether the examined intervention is comparatively cost-effective. Figure 2 provides the cost-effectiveness acceptability curves (CEACs) (Van Hout, Al, Gordon, & Rutten, 1994). Based on the distribution of the ICERs, CEACs indicate the probability of CBT-E being more cost-effective than TAU as a function of the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for one additional recovered patient. The WTP for one additional recovered Dutch anorexia nervosa patient are, to our knowledge, yet to be established.
The Journal Article Reporting Standards (Applebaum et al., 2018), the Strength- ening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology statement (Vanden- broucke et al., 2007) and the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards statement (Husereau et al., 2013) were used for study design and reporting of the results.
Results
Participants flow
The flowchart of participants for both cohorts is shown in Figure 1.