This also depends. The AHA charges for their cards—in 2017 they caused a bit of an uproar by raising the price of their card from $2.20 to $17—but they also dropped the price of their student books from $18 to $2.50. These days theprice for their cardsranges from $2.95 to $17,...
Objective To estimate the cost-effectiveness of various 10-year ASCVD risk thresholds that could be used in the ACC/AHA cholesterol treatment guidelines. Design, Setting, and Participants Microsimulation model, including lifetime time horizon, US societal perspective, 3% discount rate for costs, and ...
the QoL of the patient who recovers (A) and the one with permanent disability (C) may eventually be the same. (Taken from Creutzfeldt CJ, Holloway RG. Treatment decisions after severe stroke: Uncertainty and biasesStroke. 2012;43:3405–3408 https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.673376 with ...
This study assessed the cost-effectiveness of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) as destination therapy in ambulatory patients with advanced heart failure. Background LVADs improve survival and quality of life in inotrope-dependent heart failure, but data are limited as to their value in less...
The Seattle Heart Failure Model: prediction of survival in heart failure. Circulation. 2006;113(11):1424-1433. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.584102 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 39. Neumann PJ, Cohen JT, Weinstein MC. Updating cost-effectiveness—the curious resilience of the...