Economic and healthcare resource utilization assessments of pet imaging in coronary artery disease diagnosis: a systematic review and discussion of opportunities for future economic evaluations
Conclusions: This SLR identified economic and HCRU evaluations following PET- and SPECT-MPI for CAD diagnosis and determined that existing studies do not capture all pertinent outcome parameters or link diagnostic performance to downstream HCRU and cardiac outcomes, thus, resulting in simplified assessments of CAD burden. A limitation of this work relates to heterogeneity in study designs, patient populations, and follow-up times of existing studies. Resultingly, it was challenging to pool data in meta-analyses. Overall, this work provides a foundation for the development of comprehensive economic models for PET- and SPECT-MPI in CAD diagnosis, which should link diagnostic outcomes to HCRU and downstream cardiac events to capture the full CAD scope.PMID:38650543 | DOI:10.1080/13696998.2024.2345507
Source: Journal of Medical Economics - Category: Health Management Authors: Nicole Ferko Stacey Priest Lamees Almuallem Alicyia Walczyk Mooradally Di Wang Abril Oliva Ramirez Erika Szabo Arturo Cabra Source Type: research
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