Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of implantable cardioverter defibrillators for arrhythmias: a systematic review and economic evaluation
Bryant, Jackie, Brodin, Hakan, Loveman, Emma and Clegg, Andrew (2007) Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of implantable cardioverter defibrillators for arrhythmias: a systematic review and economic evaluation. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 23, (1), Winter Issue, 63-70. (doi:10.1017/S0266462307051586). (PMID:17234018).
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Description/Abstract
Evidence suggests that ICDs reduce total mortality but may be cost-effective only in some subgroups of patients at high risk of ventricular arrhythmias. Further research is needed on risk stratification of patients in whom ICDs are most likely to be clinically and cost-effective
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| ISSNs: | 0266-4623 (print) 1471-6348 (electronic) |
| Keywords: | implantable cardioverter defibrillators, arrhythmias,systematic review, arrhythmia, heart arrest, antiarrhythmia agents, implantable cardioverter defibrillator |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine R Medicine > RD Surgery |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine |
| Item ID: | 194803 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2011 13:28 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2011 09:42 |
| Contributors: | Bryant, Jackie (Author) Brodin, Hakan (Author) Loveman, Emma (Author) Clegg, Andrew (Author) |
| Funder: | NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/194803 |
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