Cost/utility ratio in chronic heart failure: Comparison between heart failure management program delivered by day-hospital and usual care

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1259-1266

  Capomolla, Soccorso ^a,b   Febo, Oreste ^a   Ceresa, Monica ^a   Caporotondi, Angelo ^a   Guazzotti, Giampaolo ^a   La Rovere, Maria Teresa ^a   Ferrari, Marina ^a   Lenta, Francesca ^a   Baldin, Sonia ^a   Vaccarini, Chiara ^a   Gnemmi, Marco ^a   Pinna, Giandomenico ^a   Maestri, Roberto ^a   Abelli, Paola ^a   Verdirosi, Sandro ^a   Cobelli, Franco ^a  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b Montescano Medical Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; NITRATE; POTASSIUM SPARING DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY CARE UNIT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DAY HOSPITAL; DRUG COST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART DEATH; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DAY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; ITALY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT READMISSION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037010010     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)02140-X     Document Type: Article

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