Modeling the costs and long-term health benefits of screening the general population for risks of cardiovascular disease: a review of methods used in the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Strategies for screening and intervening to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in primary care settings need to be assessed in terms of both their costs and long-term health effects. We undertook a literature review to investigate the methodologies used.

Methods

In a framework of developing a new health-economic model for evaluating different screening strategies for primary prevention of CVD in Europe (EPIC-CVD project), we identified seven key modeling issues and reviewed papers published between 2000 and 2013 to assess how they were addressed.

Results

We found 13 relevant health-economic modeling studies of screening to prevent CVD in primary care. The models varied in their degree of complexity, with between two and 33 health states. Progra

SUBMITTER: Epstein D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5047941 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature