This isn’t my area of expertise, but a quick review suggests that they are basing the numbers on a single study, which wasn’t an RCT—it was a ‘before and after’ with an attempt at a control group.
That doesn’t mean it isn’t worth looking into, for sure, but I could equally believe that the extra rigour of an RCT could move the cost per lives saved from ~$1200 to a number several times higher than that.
This isn’t my area of expertise, but a quick review suggests that they are basing the numbers on a single study, which wasn’t an RCT—it was a ‘before and after’ with an attempt at a control group.
That doesn’t mean it isn’t worth looking into, for sure, but I could equally believe that the extra rigour of an RCT could move the cost per lives saved from ~$1200 to a number several times higher than that.
It still merits furthers investigation though.