Key result
Heart failure affects approximately 37 million people worldwide and is associated with high healthcare costs, prompting this review of the principles and pitfalls in estimating its economic burden.
Why the study?
Heart failure is a growing global public health issue associated with high health-care costs, requiring a review of how its economic burden is quantified.
This review provides a framework for understanding the economic burden of heart failure, which is a growing global public health issue.
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Requires cautious use of HF cost estimates in practice; leaves open standardized methods for future economic research.
Ogah et al. (2020) conducted a review in Heart failure. Heart failure affects approximately 37 million people worldwide and is associated with high healthcare costs, prompting this review of the principles and pitfalls in estimating its economic burden.
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