Cost-effectiveness of home versus clinic-based management of chronic heart failure: Extended follow-up of a pragmatic, multicentre randomized trial cohort - The WHICH? study (Which Heart Failure Intervention Is Most Cost-Effective & Consumer Friendly in Reducing Hospital Care)

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 201, Issue , 2015, Pages 368-375

  Maru, Shoko ^a   Byrnes, Joshua ^a   Carrington, Melinda J ^b   Chan, Yih Kai ^b   Thompson, David R ^b   Stewart, Simon ^b   Scuffham, Paul A ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Disease management; Economic evaluation; Heart failure; Net monetary benefit

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SELF CARE; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

AGED; AUSTRALIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SELF CARE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84943518141     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.08.066     Document Type: Article

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