Cost effectiveness of robot-assisted urologic oncological surgery in the United States

Table 1 Three types of models to assess the economics of medical care

Economic models of medical care	Definition
Cost identification analysis	Identifies cost without evaluating outcomes
Cost effectiveness analysis	Assess cost and outcomes; represented as an incremental cost effectiveness ratio (difference of cost between two different interventions/the difference between the health outcomes)
Cost-benefit analysis	Evaluates whether the benefit is worth the cost done by measuring cost and outcomes in the same unit