Coronary heart disease prevention: insights from modelling incremental cost effectiveness
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Coronary heart disease prevention: insights from modelling incremental cost effectiveness.
OBJECTIVE To determine which treatments for preventing coronary heart disease should be offered to which patients by assessing their incremental cost effectiveness. DESIGN Modelling study. DATA SOURCES Cost estimates (for NHS) and estimates of effectiveness obtained for aspirin, antihypertensive drugs, statins and clopidogrel. DATA SYNTHESIS Treatment effects were assumed to be independen...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1264