TY - JOUR T1 - Drug-eluting stents for the treatment of coronary artery disease: NICE technology appraisal guidance JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - 847 LP - 847 VL - 95 IS - 10 AU - A Messori AU - S Trippoli Y1 - 2009/05/01 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/95/10/847.abstract N2 - To the editor: The guidance on drug-eluting stents by Richarson et al1is a typical application of the value-based approach that NICE systematically uses to examine costs and benefits of innovative treatments.In countries like Italy, where national regulatory agencies do not use any value-based approach in their approval process, appraisals on whether or not innovative interventions are value for money are left to individual researchers … ER -