Heart 2008;94:549-551
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How to cost cardiovascular care
Dr A Bakhai, Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Trust, Wellhouse Lane, Barnet, EN5 3DJ, UK; ameet.bakhai@bcf.nhs.uk
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Health economics is gaining increasing importance in cardiovascular disease management. This is not surprising given the growing numbers of treatments, devices and diagnostic tools available each year in an everlasting quest to prevent the further occurrence of cardiovascular events. The question that arrives inevitably then is—which treatments are worth their value?1 Owing to the increasing use of intracardiac defibrillators, cardiac resynchronisation, percutaneous valve implantations; the impending wave of stem cell-based technologies from myocyte replacement to cardiac autotransplantation; and the ever increasing array of diagnostic techniques from four-dimensional echocardiography to computed tomography angiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and implantable reveal devices, the money spent on cardiovascular disease continues to escalate and therefore clinicians need to appreciate and generate cost-effectiveness data with which to inform clinical choices.
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