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标题：The economics of primary prevention of cardiovascular disease – a systematic review of economic evaluations
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作者：David LB Schwappach ; Till A Boluarte ; Marc Suhrcke 等
期刊名称：Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
印刷版ISSN：1478-7547
电子版ISSN：1478-7547
出版年度：2007
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：5
DOI：10.1186/1478-7547-5-5
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：In the quest for public and private resources, prevention continues to face a difficult challenge in obtaining tangible public and political support. This may be partly because the economic evidence in favour of prevention is often said to be largely missing. The overall aim of this paper is to examine whether economic evidence in favour of prevention does exist, and if so, what its main characteristics, weaknesses and strengths are. We concentrate on the evidence regarding primary prevention that targets cardiovascular disease event or risk reduction. We conducted a systematic literature review of journal articles published during the period 1995–2005, based on a comprehensive key-word based search in generic and specialized electronic databases, accompanied by manual searches of expert databases. The search strategy consisted of combinations of freetext and keywords related to economic evaluation, cardiovascular diseases, and primary preventive interventions of risk assessment or modification. A total of 195 studies fulfilled all of the relevant inclusion criteria. Overall, a significant amount of relevant economic evidence in favour of prevention does exist, despite important remaining gaps. The majority of studies were cost-effectiveness-analyses, expressing benefits as
关键词：Economic Evaluation ; Discount Rate ; Primary Prevention ; Future Cost ; Economic Evidence