Economic evaluation of cardiac magnetic resonance with fast-SENC in the diagnosis and management of early heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Heart failure (HF) is a major public health concern, prevalent in millions of people worldwide. The most widely-used HF diagnostic method, echocardiography, incurs a decreased diagnostic accuracy for heart failure disease progression when patients are asymptomatic compared to those who are symptomatic. The purpose of this study is to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of heart failure diagnosis comparing echocardiography to a novel myocardial strain assessment (Fast-SENC), which utilizes cardiac-tagged magnetic resonance imaging.

Methods

We develop two models, one from the perspective of payers and one from the perspective of purchasers (hospitals). The payer model is a cost-effectiveness model composed of a 1-year short-term model and a lifetime horizon mode

SUBMITTER: Schneider JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6734300 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature