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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular disease prevention in whole populations
— modelling study | | Author(s) | Pelham Barton, Lazaros Andronis, Andrew Briggs |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 343, no 7819, 13 August 2011 |
| Pages | p 357 |
| Source | www.bmj.com BMJ2011;343;d4044 |
| Keywords | Cardiovascular diseases ; Preventative medicine ; Cost effectiveness ; Mathematical models ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | A programme across the entire population of England and Wales that reduced cardiovascular events by just 1% would result in health service savings worth at least £30m a year compared with no additional intervention. Reducing mean population cholesterol or blood pressure levels by 5% (as already achieved by similar interventions in some other countries) would result in annual savings worth at least £80m. This is a summary of a paper published on bmj.com, in which the authors developed a spreadsheet economic model that quantified the reduction in cardiovascular disease in the population of England and Wales over a decade. Sources used included life expectancy data from the Government Actuary's Department, indices from 'Unit costs of health and social care' (2008), and units cost and quality of life data from the ScHARR (School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield) prevention model. Not all assumptions were taken into consideration in the model developed; therefore, cost saving made are likely to be underestimates, as are deaths avoided and cost savings made. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-111117104 A |
| Classmark | CQ: LK2: WEC: 3LM: 4C * |
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