TY - JOUR
T1 - Cost estimates for treatment of cardiac ischemia (from the Asymptomatic Cardiac Ischemia Pilot [ACIP] Study)
AU - Pepine, Carl J.
AU - Mark, Daniel B.
AU - Bourassa, Martial G.
AU - Chaitman, Bernard R.
AU - Davies, Richard F.
AU - Knatterud, Genell L.
AU - Forman, Sandra
AU - Pratt, Craig
AU - Sopko, George
AU - Conti, C. Richard
PY - 1999/12/1
Y1 - 1999/12/1
N2 - Costs for management of myocardial ischemia are enormous, yet comparison cost and outcome data for various ischemia treatment strategies from randomized trials are lacking and will require cost and resource utilization data from a large prospective trial. The Asymptomatic Cardiac Ischemia Pilot provided feasibility data for planning such a trial and an opportunity to estimate the long-term costs of different treatment strategies. Economic implications for ischemia management were compared in 558 patients with stable coronary artery disease and myocardial ischemia during both stress testing and daily life. Participants were randomized to 3 different initial treatment strategies and followed for 2 years. Based on cost trends over follow-up, costs for subsequent care were estimated. As expected, due to initial procedural costs, at 3 months, estimated costs for revascularization were approximately 10 times greater than costs for a medical care strategy. Extrapolated costs for anticipated resource consumption for care beyond 2 years, however, were approximately 2 times greater for an initial medical care strategy than for initial revascularization. This was due to increased need for drugs and hospitalizations for both late revascularizations and other ischemia-related events. Estimated costs for anticipated care in the medical strategies reached the anticipated cost of the revascularization strategy within 10 years. Because this cost-equal time period is well within the median life expectancy for such a patient population, these findings could have important public health implications and require testing in a full-scale prognosis trial. We anticipate that over the patients' life expectancy, early revascularization is likely to become either cost-neutral or cost-effective.
AB - Costs for management of myocardial ischemia are enormous, yet comparison cost and outcome data for various ischemia treatment strategies from randomized trials are lacking and will require cost and resource utilization data from a large prospective trial. The Asymptomatic Cardiac Ischemia Pilot provided feasibility data for planning such a trial and an opportunity to estimate the long-term costs of different treatment strategies. Economic implications for ischemia management were compared in 558 patients with stable coronary artery disease and myocardial ischemia during both stress testing and daily life. Participants were randomized to 3 different initial treatment strategies and followed for 2 years. Based on cost trends over follow-up, costs for subsequent care were estimated. As expected, due to initial procedural costs, at 3 months, estimated costs for revascularization were approximately 10 times greater than costs for a medical care strategy. Extrapolated costs for anticipated resource consumption for care beyond 2 years, however, were approximately 2 times greater for an initial medical care strategy than for initial revascularization. This was due to increased need for drugs and hospitalizations for both late revascularizations and other ischemia-related events. Estimated costs for anticipated care in the medical strategies reached the anticipated cost of the revascularization strategy within 10 years. Because this cost-equal time period is well within the median life expectancy for such a patient population, these findings could have important public health implications and require testing in a full-scale prognosis trial. We anticipate that over the patients' life expectancy, early revascularization is likely to become either cost-neutral or cost-effective.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00563-9
DO - 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00563-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 10614796
AN - SCOPUS:0032701882
SN - 0002-9149
VL - 84
SP - 1311
EP - 1316
JO - American Journal of Cardiology
JF - American Journal of Cardiology
IS - 11
ER -