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Is comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation a cost-effective use of health care resources?
Is comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation a cost-effective use of health care resources?
Comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation appears to be a cost-effective use of healthcare resources based on long-term life-years saved, assuming cost-containing principles are applied.
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Supports cardiac rehabilitation cost-effectiveness in syntheses with cost controls; leaves open need for updated prospective trials in contemporary settings.
In this article, the available health-economic literature in the field of comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation is reviewed. The effects of cardiac rehabilitation are well known, but cost-effectiveness studies are lacking in several important areas. The long-term effect on the number of life-years saved indicates that cardiac rehabilitation is a cost-effective use of health care resources, provided that cost-containing principles are applied in comprehensive programmes.
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