Cardiovascular health care economics / edited by William S. Weintraub.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weintraub, William S.

Series:

Contemporary cardiology (Totowa, N.J.)

Contemporary cardiology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cardiology--Economic aspects--United States.

Cardiology.

Cardiovascular Diseases--economics.

United States.

Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Health Expenditures.

Hospital Costs.

Medical Subjects:

Cardiovascular Diseases--economics.

United States.

Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Health Expenditures.

Hospital Costs.

Physical Description:

xii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2003]

Summary:

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:

1 Nonfederal US Hospital Costs / Steven D. Culler, Adam Atherly 1

2 Estimating the Costs of Cardiac Care Provided by the Hospitals of the US Department of Veterans Affairs / Paul G. Barnett, Patricia Lin, Todd H. Wagner 15

3 Estimating the Costs of Health Care Resources in Canada / Gordon Blackhouse 31

4 US Physician Costs: Conceptual and Methodological Issues and Selected Applications / Edmund R. Becker 45

5 Indirect Health Care Costs: An Overview / Stephen J. Boccuzzi 63

6 Health Status Assessment / John A. Spertus, Mark W. Conard 81

7 Utility Assessment / John A. Spertus, Robert F. Nease, Jr. 101

8 Introduction to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis / Robert F. Nease, Jr. 111

9 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials: Statistical and Methodological Issues / Elizabeth M. Mahoney, Haitao Chu 123

Part II. Clinical Applications

10 Costs of Care and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Primary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease / Kevin A. Schulman, Padma Kaul 157

11 Economics of Therapy for Acute Coronary Syndromes / Daniel B. Mark 173

12 Cost-Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions / David J. Cohen, Ameet Bakhai 187

13 Economic Comparisons of Coronary Angioplasty and Coronary Bypass Surgery / Mark A. Hlatky 223

14 Costs of Coronary Artery Surgery and Cost-Effectiveness of CABG vs Medicine / Sean C. Beinart, William S. Weintraub 233

15 Costs of Care and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Other Cardiac Surgery / Vinod H. Thourani, William S. Weintraub 249

16 Congestive Heart Failure / Mikhail Torosoff, Claude-Laurent Sader, Edward F. Philbin, III 259

17 Current Economic Evidence Using Noninvasive Cardiac Testing / Leslee J. Shaw, Rita Redberg, Charles Denham 285

18 Cost-Effective Care in the Management of Conduction Disease and Arrhythmias / David J. Malenka, Edward Catherwood 303

19 Comparing Cost-Utility Analyses in Cardiovascular Medicine / Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, David J. Cohen, Marc L. Berger, Peter J. Neumann 329

20 Beyond Heart Disease: Cost-Effectiveness as a Guide to Comparing Alternate Approaches to Improving the Nation's Health / Tammy O. Tengs, Nicholas P. Emptage 357

21 Using Economic Studies for Policy Purposes / Rajiv Shah, Kevin G. M. Volpp 365

22 Medicare, the Aging of America, and the Balanced Budget / Paul Heidenreich 389

Afterword: The Future of Economics in Cardiovascular Care and Research / William S. Weintraub 417.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0896038742

OCLC:

51438614