Journal article
Cost-effectiveness of primary and secondary prevention of fatal pulmonary embolism in high-risk surgical patients.
Abstract
Because death due to pulmonary embolism is relatively rare following general surgery, many question the need for prophylaxis. In addition, there has been reluctance to apply new interventions whose cost-effectiveness has not been adequately evaluated. A cost-effectiveness analysis based on over 1000 high-risk patients undergoing abdominothoracic surgery, with effectiveness measured in terms of numbers of deaths from pulmonary embolism averted, …
Authors
Hull RD; Hirsh J; Sackett DL; Stoddart GL
Journal
Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 127, No. 10, pp. 990–995
Publication Date
November 15, 1982
ISSN
0820-3946