Cardiovascular Health Care Economics

I. Methods.- 1 Nonfederal US Hospital Costs.- 2 Estimating the Costs of Cardiac Care Provided by the Hospitals of the US Department of Veterans Affairs.- 3 Estimating the Costs of Health Care Resources in Canada.- 4 US Physician Costs: Conceptual and Methodological Issues and Selected Applications.- 5 Indirect Health Care Costs: An Overview.- 6 Health Status Assessment.- 7 Utility Assessment.- 8 Introduction to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.- 9 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials: Statistical and Methodological Issues.- II. Clinical Applications.- 10 Costs of Care and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Primary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease.- 11 Economics of Therapy for Acute Coronary Syndromes.- 12 Cost-Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions.- 13 Economic Comparisons of Coronary Angioplasty and Coronary Bypass Surgery.- 14 Costs of Coronary Artery Surgery and Cost-Effectiveness of CABG vs Medicine.- 15 Costs of Care and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Other Cardiac Surgery.- 16 Congestive Heart Failure.- 17 Current Economic Evidence Using Noninvasive Cardiac Testing.- 18 Cost-Effective Care in the Management of Conduction Disease and Arrhythmias.- 19 Comparing Cost-Utility Analyses in Cardiovascular Medicine.- 20 Beyond Heart Disease: Cost-Effectiveness as a Guide to Comparing Alternate Approaches to Improving the Nation’s Health.- 21 Using Economic Studies for Policy Purposes.- 22 Medicare, the Aging of America, and the Balanced Budget.- Afterword: The Future of Economics in Cardiovascular Care and Research.