Machine derived contents note: Preface v -- Contributors xi -- PART I. METHODS -- 1 Nonfederal US Hospital Costs 1 -- Steven D. Culler and Adam Atherly -- 2 Estimating the Costs of Cardiac Care Provided by the Hospitals -- of the US Department of Veterans Affairs 15 -- Paul G. Barnett, Patricia Lin, and Todd H. Wagner -- 3 Estimating the Costs of Health Care Resources in Canada 31 -- Gordon Blackhouse -- 4 US Physician Costs: Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- and Selected Applications 45 -- Edmund R. Becker -- 5 Indirect Health Care Costs: An Overview 63 -- Stephen J. Boccuzzi -- 6 Health Status Assessment 81 -- John A. Spertus and Mark W. Conard -- 7 Utility Assessment 101 -- John A. Spertus and Robert F. Nease, Jr. -- 8 Introduction to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 111 -- Robert F. Nease, Jr. -- 9 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials: Statistical -- and Methodological Issues 123 -- Elizabeth M. Mahoney and Haitao Chu -- PART II. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS -- 10 Costs of Care and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Primary Prevention -- of Coronary Artery Disease 157 -- Kevin A. Schulman and Padma Kaul -- 11 Economics of Therapy for Acute Coronary Syndromes 173 -- Daniel B. Mark -- 12 Cost-Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions 187 -- David J. Cohen and Ameet Bakhai -- 13 Economic Comparisons of Coronary Angioplasty -- and Coronary Bypass Surgery 223 -- Mark A. Hlatky -- 14 Costs of Coronary Artery Surgery and Cost-Effectiveness -- of CABG vs Medicine 233 -- Sean C. Beinart and William S. Weintraub -- 15 Costs of Care and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: -- Other Cardiac Surgery 249 -- Vinod H. Thourani and William S. Weintraub -- 16 Congestive Heart Failure 259 -- Mikhail Torosoff, Claude-Laurent Sader, and Edward F. Philbin, III -- 17 Current Economic Evidence Using Noninvasive Cardiac Testing 285 -- Leslee J. Shaw, Rita Redberg, and Charles Denham -- 18 Cost-Effective Care in the Management of Conduction Disease -- and Arrhythmias 303 -- David J. Malenka and Edward Catherwood -- 19 Comparing Cost-Utility Analyses in Cardiovascular Medicine 329 -- Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, David J. Cohen, Marc L. Berger, -- and Peter J. Neumann -- 20 Beyond Heart Disease: Cost-Effectiveness as a Guide to Comparing -- Alternate Approaches to Improving the Nation's Health 357 -- Tammy O. Tengs and Nicholas P. Emptage -- 21 Using Economic Studies for Policy Purposes 365 -- Rajiv Shah and Kevin G.M. Volpp -- 22 Medicare, the Aging of America, and the Balanced Budget 389 -- Paul Heidenreich -- Afterword: The Future of Economics in Cardiovascular Care -- and Research 417 -- William S. Weintraub -- Index 421.