Open Access<p>Cost-Effectiveness of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure in Thailand</p>
Author(s) -
Unchalee Permsuwan,
Arintaya Phrommintikul,
Voratima Silavanich
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinicoeconomics and outcomes research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.591
H-Index - 27
ISSN - 1178-6981
DOI - 10.2147/ceor.s268553
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac resynchronization therapy , cost effectiveness , heart failure , clinical trial , psychological intervention , quality adjusted life year , cost effectiveness analysis , ejection fraction , risk analysis (engineering) , psychiatry
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves symptoms and survival in patients with heart failure (HF). However, the CRT devices are costly and can impose a significant burden to the relatively constrained health budgets of middle-income countries such as Thailand. The aim of this study was to analyze the cost-effectiveness of CRT in combination with optimal medical therapy (OMT) relative to patients with OMT alone.