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      Direct and Indirect Cost of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

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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
          66eaf925-0d44-4ec7-8934-56375f696f67
          © 1994 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          History
          : 18 April 1994
          : 12 May 1994
          Page count
          Pages: 5
          Categories
          Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology

          General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
          Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty,Return to work

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