Journal of Vascular Medicine & Surgery

Department of Cardiology, Center for Economic Research Universidad del Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia

Publications

• Research Article   
  Burden of Disease: Heart Failure in an Emerging Country
  Author(s): Clímaco Pérez Molina*, Carlos Castañeda Orjuela, Pedro Valbuena Hernandez, Rafael I Perez Arias, María A Perez Arias and Ana María Arias Copete
  
  Heart Failure (HF) harbors a multiplicity of causes in its development and progression. Therapeutic interventions for its treatment are high-cost technologies, drugs, and procedures. With this study, we want to comprehensively evaluate the cost-effectiveness of therapeutic interventions used in the management of functional class II-IV HF. For this, a systematic review of economic evaluations of the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility type was carried out, for each of the therapeutic interventions for HF and risk of sudden death, during the period 2015-2022. The articles were searched in several databases, in English and Spanish. The data extraction was done through the Patient/Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcomes (PICO) framework. The results were expressed in the incremental costeffectiveness ratio. As a result, 162 clinical trials were obtained. It is concluded that th.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2329-6925.23.11.533

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