Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in emergency patients with multivessel disease or unobstructed coronary arteries: a cost-effectiveness analysis in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify the key drivers of cost-effectiveness for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) when patients activate the primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) pathway.

Design

Economic decision models for two patient subgroups populated from secondary sources, each with a 1 year time horizon from the perspective of the National Health Service (NHS) and personal social services in the UK.

Setting

Usual care (with or without CMR) in the NHS.

Participants

Patients who activated the PPCI pathway, and for Model 1: underwent an emergency coronary angiogram and PPCI, and were found to have multivessel coronary artery disease. For Model 2: underwent an emergency coronary angiogram and were found to have unobstructed coronary arteries.

Interventi

SUBMITTER: Stokes EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6629389 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature