A primer on cost-effectiveness analyses for vascular surgeons

作者：Barshes Neal R; Chambers James D; Cantor Scott B; Cohen Joshua; Belkin Michael^*

来源：Journal of Vascular Surgery, 2012, 55(6): 1794-1800.

DOI：10.1016/j.jvs.2012.02.026

The rate of growth in health care costs in the United States is simply unsustainable. In this economic climate, health care providers will increasingly be asked to justify the existence of health care programs and management strategies on an economic basis. An understanding of cost-effectiveness analyses and its components - direct and indirect costs, quality-adjusted life-years, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios - is integral to this. We present a primer on the methodology of cost-effectiveness analyses and a review of published cost-effectiveness analyses of vascular surgery interventions with the goal of providing the vascular surgeon with a basic understanding of this topic. (J Vasc Surg 2012;55:1794-800.)

• 出版日期2012-6