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Direct and Indirect Cost of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

Cardiology

S. Karger AG

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A prospective study of 53 patients employed in the 6-month period before coronary angioplasty was performed to determine the direct and indirect costs of lag time in work resumption. The total direct costs calculated were \$273,480; indirect costs for this sample were $$150,944. When these costs are generalized to all patients in the US undergoing uncomplicated percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, the costs are more than$$1.2 billion. This study demonstrated that even in patients with a high a priori probability of work return, delay in work resumption results in a greater cost to the individual and society through absence from the labor force.

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Journal
CRD
Cardiology
10.1159/issn.0008-6312
Cardiology
S. Karger AG
0008-6312
1421-9751
1994
1994
18 November 2008
: 85
: 5
: 298-302
Affiliations
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Division of Occupational Health, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, and Department of Economics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md., USA
Article
176701 Cardiology 1994;85:298–302
10.1159/000176701
7850819
© 1994 S. Karger AG, Basel