Title
Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Medical Devices: Application in Cardiology.
Abstract
Current discussions about cost-effectiveness in the field of medical devices for cardiology are reviewed. In order to identify the trends, we performed a review of studies published in medical journals. After having reviewed 1143 originally identified papers, we finally selected 61 papers to be studied in detail. The selected papers are classified into two categories: diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices, while technology for telemedicine is briefly mentioned. In each category, cost-effectiveness results of chosen modalities are presented. The main trend seems to be avoiding invasive technology during the treatment. This trend is obvious both in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic devices. In CAD diagnostics, some authors try to prove that CT, PET or SPECT are more cost-effective than ICA. As compared with the classical (open chest) surgery in the past, the treatment of cardio-vascular illnesses is moving to less invasive interventions (TAVI versus SAVR is just one example).
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-16483-0_16
BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING (IWBBIO 2015), PT I
Keywords
Field
DocType
HTA review,medical devices,cardiology,cost-effectiveness
Modalities,Telemedicine,Psychological intervention,Internal medicine,Cardiology,Therapeutic Devices,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9043
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Radka Otawova100.68
Vojtech Kamensky200.34
Pavla Hasenohrlova300.34
Vladimír Rogalewicz401.01