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Main description:
An illuminating and timely synthesis of methodological and clinical studies showing how medical costs can be established, how the value of clinical outcomes can be assessed, and how difficult choices can be rationally made. The methodological chapters review the conceptual and practical issues involved in estimating and interpreting health care costs, making health status and utility assessments, and statistically analyzing cost-effectiveness and clinical trials. The clinical chapters apply these methods to the major clinical areas of cardiology-primary prevention of coronary artery disease, acute coronary syndromes, angioplasty vs coronary bypass surgery, CABG vs medicine, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, and cardiac surgery. Additional chapters consider the use of economic studies for policy purposes and the future of Medicare under a balanced budget in an aging America.
Contents:
Part I. Methods
Nonfederal US Hospital Costs
Steven D. Culler and Adam Atherly
Estimating the Costs of Cardiac Care Provided by the Hospitals of the US Department of Veterans Affairs
Paul G. Barnett, Patricia Lin, and Todd H. Wagner
Estimating the Costs of Health Care Resources in Canada
Gordon Blackhouse
US Physician Costs: Conceptual and Methodological Issues and Selected Applications
Edmund R. Becker
Indirect Health Care Costs: An Overview
Stephen J. Boccuzzi
Health Status Assessment
John A. Spertus and Mark W. Conard
Utility Assessment
John A. Spertus and Robert F. Nease, Jr.
Introduction to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Robert F. Nease, Jr.
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials: Statistical and Methodological Issues
Elizabeth M. Mahoney and Haitao Chu
Part II. Clinical Applications
Costs of Care and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Primary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease
Kevin A. Schulman and Padma Kaul
Economics of Therapy for Acute Coronary Syndromes
Daniel B. Mark
Cost-Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
David J. Cohen and Ameet Bakhai
Economic Comparisons of Coronary Angioplasty and Coronary Bypass Surgery
Mark A. Hlatky
Costs of Coronary Artery Surgery and Cost-Effectiveness of CABG vs Medicine
Sean C. Beinart and William S. Weintraub
Costs of Care and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Other Cardiac Surgery
Vinod H. Thourani and William S. Weintraub
Congestive Heart Failure
Mikhail Torosoff, Claude-Laurent Sader, and Edward F. Philbin, III
Current Economic Evidence Using Noninvasive Cardiac Testing
Leslee J. Shaw, Rita Redberg, and Charles Denham
Cost-Effective Care in the Management of Conduction Disease and Arrhythmias
David J. Malenka and Edward Catherwood
Comparing Cost-Utility Analyses in Cardiovascular Medicine
Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, David J. Cohen, Marc L. Berger, and Peter J. Neumann
Beyond Heart Disease: Cost-Effectiveness as a Guide to Comparing Alternate Approaches to Improving the Nation's Health
Tammy O. Tengs and Nicholas P. Emptage
Using Economic Studies for Policy Purposes
Rajiv Shah and Kevin G. M. Volpp
Medicare, the Aging of America, and the Balanced Budget
Paul Heidenreich
Afterword: The Future of Economics in Cardiovascular Care and Research
William S. Weintraub
Index
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: August, 2012
Pages: 436
Weight: 861g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Cardiovascular Medicine
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