Ruling out cardiac failure: Cost-benefit analysis of a sequential testing strategy with NT-proBNP before echocardiography

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the possible economic benefit of a sequential testing strategy with NT-proBNP to reduce the number of echocardiographies. METHODS: Retrospective study in a third-party payer perspective. The costs were calculated from three Swedish counties: Blekinge, Östergötland, and Upplan...

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Autores principales: Ferrandis, Maria-José, Ryden, Ingvar, Lindahl, Tomas L., Larsson, Anders
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Informa Healthcare 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3633333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23230860
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03009734.2012.751471

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3633333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23230860
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03009734.2012.751471

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