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Effects of ACE Inhibitors on Heart Failure in The Netherlands

A Pharmacoeconomic Model

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  • Cost Effectiveness of ACE Inhibitors
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A modelling approach is uscd to analyse the cost effectiveness of prescribing angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, compared with standard practice, as first-line therapeutic agents in the treatment of hean failure in The Netherlands. Data concerning costs, incidence. prevalence and survival are used to construct an age-dependent semi-Markov-chain model. Two scenarios are compared. The first reflects the continuation of common practice. The second. containing assumptions made on the basis of results from randomised clinical trials, reflects the situation in which ACE inhibitors are given as first-lin e pharmacotherapy. Conditional on the esti mates and assumptions made. it is shown that prescribing ACE inhibitors as first-tine pharmacotherapy will improve survival by about 4% over the first 10 years. and will save about 17% in costs over the first 10 years. Sensiti vity analysis shows the robustness of the conclusio ns to all major parameters.

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  1. Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000, DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Ben A. van Hour, Gina Wielink, Gouke J. Bonsel & Frans F. H. Rutten

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van Hour, B.A., Wielink, G., Bonsel, G.J. et al. Effects of ACE Inhibitors on Heart Failure in The Netherlands. Pharmacoeconomics 3, 387–397 (1993). https://doi.org/10.2165/00019053-199303050-00006

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