Cardiovascular Health Care Economics

Given the limited ability of government to fund health care and the staggering cost of cardiovascular disease to society-an estimated $351.8 billion for 2003 in direct medical costs and lost productivity-critical choices must be made to reduce the burden

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CARE ECONOMICS

CONTEMPORARY CARDIOLOGY CHRISTOPHER

P. CANNON, MD

SERIES EDITOR

Coronary Disease in Women: Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Treatment, edited by Leslee J. Shaw, phD and Rita Redberg, MD, FACC, 2004 Cardiovascular Health Care Economics, edited by William S. Weintraub, MD, 2003 Heart Failure: A Clinician's Guide to Ambulatory Diagnosis and Treatment, edited by Mariell L. Jessup, MD, 2003 Cardiac Repolarization: Basic and Clinical Research, edited by Ihor Gussak, MD, phD, Charles Antzelevitch, phD, Stephen C. Hammill, MD, co-edited by Win-Kuong Shen, MD, and Preben Bjerregaard, MD, DMSc, 2003 Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes, Second Edition, edited by Christopher P. Cannon, MD 2003 Aging, Heart Disease, and Its Management: Facts and Controversies, edited by Niloo M. Edwards, MD, Mathew S. Maurer, MD, and Rachel B. Wellner, MPH, 2003 Peripheral Arterial Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, edited by Jay D. Coffman, MD and Robert T. Eberhardt, MD, 2003 Essentials of Bedside Cardiology: With a Complete Course in Heart Sounds and Murmurs on CD, Second Edition, by Jules Constant, MD, FACC, 2003 Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Second Edition, edited by Daniel J. Goldstein, MD and Mehmet C. OZ, MD, 2003 Platelet Glycoprotein IIblIlIa Inhibitors in Cardiovascular Disease, Second Edition, edited by A. Michael Lincoff, MD, 2003 Nuclear Cardiology Basics: How to Set Up and Maintain a Laboratory, edited by Frans J. Th. Wackers, MD, Wendy Bruni, CNMT, and Barry L. Zaret, MD, 2003

Primary Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction, edited by James E. Tcheng, MD,2002 Cardiogenic Shock: Diagnosis and Treatment, edited by David Hasdai, MD, Peter B. Berger, MD, Alexander Battler, MD, and David R. Holmes, Jr., MD, 2002 Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias, edited by Leonard I. Ganz, MD, 2002 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, edited by Michael T. Johnstone, MD and Aristidis Veves, MD, DSC, 2001 Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and. Therapeutics, edited by William B. White, MD, 2001 Vascular Disease and Injury: Preclinical Research edited by Daniell. Simon, MD, and Campbell Rogers, MD 2001 Preventive Cardiology: Strategies for the Prevention and Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease, edited by JoAnne Micale Foody, MD, 2001 Nitric Oxide and the Cardiovascular System, edited by Joseph Loscalzo, MD, phD and Joseph A. Vita, MD, 2000 Annotated Atlas of Electrocardiography: A Guide to Confident Interpretation, by Thomas M. Blake, MD, 1999 Platelet Glycoprotein lIb/IlIa Inhibitors in Cardiovascular Disease, edited by A. Michael LincojJ, MD, and Eric J. Topol, MD, 1999 Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, edited by Mehmet C. Oz, MD and Daniel J. Goldstein, MD, 1999 Management ofAcute Coronary Syndromes, edited by Christopher P. Cannon, MD, 1999

CARDIOVASCUlAR

HFALTH

CARE

EcONOMICS Edited by

WILLIAM

S. WEINTRAUB,

MD

Emory University School ofMedicine, Atlanta, GA

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