title: Is coronary artery surgery so expensive?
abstract: Severe angina may lead to complete invalidism, with reliance on social security payments and accumulated savings. The average cost of this situation to the patient is $4-6000 pa and to the State $3-4000 pa. Reputedly expensive cardiac operations are cheaper, at under $2000, than unoperated invalidism, and thus rapidly repay their cost in addition to their non-financial attributes.
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000191:economics*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000191:economics* / Q000601:surgery; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand; D013997:Time Factors