Cost-effectiveness assessment criteria
cognitive impairments
This study used the cost and health effect of the RCT endpoints, when the children were 20–24 months old, following the ISPOR guidelines [To the best of our knowledge, no link has been established between generic measures of health effects, such as avoided Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY), and our health measure (i.e., units of cognitive composite score). However, based on the World Health Organization’s generally suggested willingness to pay for avoiding the loss of a DALY, we performed approximated calculations that could help relate our results to previously published DALY weights for mild cognitive impairments (see the and the 