Journal article
Contemporary Context of Drug-Eluting Stents in Brazil
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Although drug-eluting stents (DES) have been widely incorporated into clinical practice in developed countries, several countries restrict their use mainly because of their high cost and unfavorable incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICER).
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of DES in comparison with bare-metal stents (BMS) for treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD).
Authors
Stella SF; Gehling Bertoldi E; Polanczyk CA
Journal
Medical Decision Making, Vol. 36, No. 8, pp. 1034–1042
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
11 2016
DOI
10.1177/0272989x16636054
ISSN
0272-989X