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ArticleInterventional cardiology

Cost-effectiveness Assessment of Cardiac Interventions: Determining a Socially Acceptable Cost Threshold.

Chete M Eze-Nliam, Zugui Zhang, Sandra A Weiss, William S Weintraub

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Article in Interventional cardiology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Chete M Eze-NliamCardiology Section, Christiana Care Health System/Thomas Jefferson University,4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road, Newark, DE 19718, USA.
Zugui ZhangCardiology Section, Christiana Care Health System/Thomas Jefferson University,4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road, Newark, DE 19718, USA.
Sandra A WeissCardiology Section, Christiana Care Health System/Thomas Jefferson University,4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road, Newark, DE 19718, USA.
William S WeintraubCardiology Section, Christiana Care Health System/Thomas Jefferson University,4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road, Newark, DE 19718, USA.

Funding

Subproject Title: Clinical Research Education, Mentoring and Career Development CoreU54GM104941 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE · PI Gregory E Hicks · 2013 to 2026
$60.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM104941
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health care is a vital good for which there is an infinite demand. However, societal resources are finite and need to be distributed efficiently to avoid waste. Thus, the relative value of an intervention - cost compared to its effectiveness- needs to be taken into consideration when deciding which interventions to adopt. Cost-effectiveness analysis provides the crucial information which guides these decisions. As the field of medicine and indeed cardiology move forward with innovations which are effective but often expensive, it becomes imperative to employ these cost-effectiveness analytic tools, not with the intention of denying vital health services but to ascertain what the society willing to pay for.

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Identifiers

PMID26136831
PMCPMC4484870

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