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CME ENThusiast

Care Equity, Quality, and Safety

Money Talks: Deciphering Cost-effectiveness Research, Part 1

Sunday, October 18, 2026
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM PT
Location: Petree Hall D

    Lead Presenter(s)

  • Prasanth Pattisapu, MD, MPH

    Assistant Professor
    Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Columbus, Ohio, United States

    • Co-Presenter(s)

  • GS

    George A. Scangas, MD

    Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology
    Massachusetts Eye and Ear
    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cost-effectiveness research is increasingly common in Otolaryngology, but understanding this literature is not always intuitive. In this session, participants will learn the major types of economic analysis in healthcare and their basic premises, understand how to interpret the most common types of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility studies in Otolaryngology, and be able to critically appraise studies for their decision framework, assumptions, or handling of uncertainty. In this first session, participants will get a crash course in the development of a cost-effectiveness study.

Learning Objectives:

  • Know the major types of economic analyses in healthcare and their basic premises.
  • Understand how to interpret the most common types of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility studies in Otolaryngology.
  • Be able to critically appraise studies for their decision framework, assumptions, or handling of uncertainty.