Cost/benefit analysis of treatment and prevention of myocardial infarction

• Published in: Health services research Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 174 - 189
• Main Author: Cretin, S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 1977
• Subjects: Child; Coronary Care Units; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Humans; Mass Screening; Mobile Health Units; Myocardial Infarction - mortality; Myocardial Infarction - prevention & control; Quality of Health Care

The benefits resulting from introduction of coronary care units, mobile coronary care units, and a screening and intervention program to decrease the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) are reduced to a common basis by modeling the effects of the three strategies as applied to a cohort of 10-yea...