… assigning utility penalties to the average patients’ health-related quality of life. Utility penalties
… This method has previously been used in similar patient populations in lieu of more typical …

… We performed a cost‐utility analysis of CA compared with usual medical management of
AF in patients with HF, using data from available randomized controlled trials and meta‐…

… The results of this analysis are consistent with a similar cost-effectiveness analysis of a
nurse-led disease management programme for patients with atrial fibrillationCitation 35 . …

… A patient-level Markov health-state transition model was used to conduct a cost-utility analysis.
The population included patients previously treated for AF with medical therapy, including …

… 8 studies assessed the cost-utility of prolonged ECG … cost-utility analyses reported incremental
cost-effectiveness ratios below $50 000 per QALY gained; and two studies reported a cost…

… developed in Microsoft Excel for the cost-utility analysis. Patients were modeled to occupy one
… Each health state was associated with a cost and a utility value. The structure of the model …

… cohort to examine the impact of parameter uncertainty in the frequency of probabilities,
utilities, and costs. In this analysis, the time horizon of the model was 10 years with a cycle length …

… the cost-utility of dabigatran relative to warfarin for preventing stroke in nonvalvular atrial
fibrillation (NVAF) … This study evaluates the cost-utility of dabigatran for preventing stroke among …

… Cost utility analysis was undertaken by calculating the incremental cost-utility ratio (ICUR)
from the difference in costs … Similarly, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) was also …

… analysis,” and “economic burden” and excluding terms such as “cost effectiveness,” “cost
utility,” and “cost benefit” using Boolean operators. The search strings are reported in Appendix …