August 9, 1999Archives of Internal Medicine
Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Clinical Practice
Why the study?
Are specific pharmacological, behavioral, and surgical therapies cost-effective in managing heart failure?
Population
Patients with heart failure
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Supports value-based HF therapy selection now; extends outcome data with economic synthesis for future analyses.
Structured PICO
Are specific pharmacological, behavioral, and surgical therapies cost-effective in managing heart failure?
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Population
Patients with heart failure
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Intervention
Specific approaches to managing heart failure including angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, other vasodilators, digoxin, carvedilol, multidisciplinary heart failure management teams, and heart transplantation
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Outcome
Cost-effectiveness
Various established heart failure therapies, including specific medications, multidisciplinary teams, and transplantation, are cost-effective and may even yield net cost savings.
Cite This Study
Rich et al. (1999) studied this question.