Need cardiac rehabilitation be cost-effective?
In this article, the available health-economic literature in the field of comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation is reviewed. The effects of cardiac rehabilitation are well known, but cost-effectiveness studies are lacking in several important areas. The long-term effect on the number of life-years saved indicates that cardiac rehabilitation is a cost-effective use of health care resources, provided that cost-containing principles are applied in comprehensive programmes.
Perk
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Department of Internal Medicine, Oskarshamn Hospital, Sweden.
D003191:Comprehensive Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000191:economics* / Q000401:mortality / Q000534:rehabilitation*