Cardiovascular health care economics /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Weintraub, William S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2003]
Series:Contemporary cardiology (Totowa, N.J. : Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Nonfederal U.S. hospital costs
  • Estimating the costs of cardiac care provided by the hospitals of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Estimating the costs of health care resources in Canada
  • U.S. physician costs : conceptual and methodological issues and selected applications
  • Indirect health care costs : an overview
  • Health status assessment
  • Utility assessment
  • Introduction to cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis alongside clinical trials : statistical and methodological issues
  • Costs of care and cost-effectiveness analysis : primary prevention of coronary artery disease
  • Economics of therapy for acute coronary syndromes
  • Cost-effectiveness of percutaneous coronary interventions
  • Economic comparisons of coronary angioplasty and coronary bypass surgery
  • Costs of coronary artery surgery and cost-effectiveness of CABG vs medicine
  • Costs of care and cost-effectiveness analysis : other cardiac surgery
  • Congestive heart failure
  • Current economic evidence using noninvasive cardiac testing
  • Cost-effective care in the management of conduction disease and arrhythmias
  • Comparing cost-utility analyses in cardiovascular medicine
  • Beyond heart disease : cost-effectiveness as a guide to comparing alternate approaches to improving the nation's health
  • Using economic studies for policy purposes
  • Medicare, the aging of America, and the balanced budget
  • Afterword : the future of economics in cardiovascular care and research