Pitfalls in health-economic evaluations: the case of cost-effectiveness of prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy in Belgium

Europace. 2009 Dec;11(12):1571-3. doi: 10.1093/europace/eup290. Epub 2009 Oct 8.
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Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Belgium / epidemiology
  • Cost of Illness
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / epidemiology*
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / prevention & control*
  • Defibrillators, Implantable / economics*
  • Female
  • Health Care Costs / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Life Expectancy
  • Male
  • Markov Chains
  • Middle Aged
  • Models, Cardiovascular
  • Models, Economic
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors
  • Survival Analysis
  • Survival Rate
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / economics*
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / mortality
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / prevention & control*