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ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2022

Cost-of-Illness Analysis of Long-Term Health Care Resource Use and Disease Burden in Patients With Pulmonary Embolism: Insights From the PREFER in VTE Registry.

Ioannis T Farmakis, Stefano Barco, Anna C Mavromanoli, Giancarlo Agnelli, Alexander T Cohen, George Giannakoulas, Charles E Mahan, Stavros V Konstantinides, Luca Valerio

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Article in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Percutaneous interventions for pulmonary embolism.EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2024
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  19. Abelacimab for Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Translating Dual FXI/XIa Inhibition from Mechanism to Clinical Prospects.Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 6 institutions in 6 countries.

Ioannis T FarmakisCenter for Thrombosis and Hemostasis University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0586-6386
Stefano BarcoCenter for Thrombosis and Hemostasis University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2618-347X
Anna C MavromanoliCenter for Thrombosis and Hemostasis University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8833-2859
Giancarlo AgnelliInternal Vascular and Emergency Medicine-Stroke Unit University of Perugia Perugia Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4308-7797
Alexander T CohenDepartment of Haematology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust King's College London London UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9398-4621
George GiannakoulasDepartment of Cardiology, AHEPA University Hospital Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7491-6319
Charles E MahanUniversity of New Mexico College of Pharmacy Albuquerque NM.ORCID 0000-0002-0225-152X
Stavros V KonstantinidesCenter for Thrombosis and Hemostasis University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6359-7279
Luca ValerioCenter for Thrombosis and Hemostasis University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4466-0724
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DEAristotle University of Thessaloniki · GRDemocritus University of Thrace · GRKing's College London · GBUniversity of New Mexico · USUniversity of Perugia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background As mortality from pulmonary embolism (PE) decreases, the personal and societal costs among survivors are receiving increasing attention. Detailing this burden would support an efficient public health resource allocation. We aimed to provide estimates for the economic and disease burden of PE also accounting for long-term health care use and both direct and indirect costs beyond the acute phase. Methods and Results This is a cost-of-illness analysis with a bottom-up approach based on data from the PREFER in VTE registry (Prevention of Thromboembolic Events-European Registry in Venous Thromboembolism). We calculated direct (clinical events and anticoagulation) and indirect costs (loss of productivity) of an acute PE event and its 12-month follow-up in 2020 Euros. We estimated a disability weight for the 12-month post-PE status and corresponding disability adjusted life years presumably owing to PE. Disease-specific costs in the first year of follow-up after an incident PE case ranged between 9135 Euros and 10 620 Euros. The proportion of indirect costs was 42% to 49% of total costs. Costs were lowest in patients with ongoing cancer, mainly because productivity loss was less evident in this already burdened population. The calculated disability weight for survivors who were cancer free 12 months post-PE was 0.017, and the estimated disability adjusted life years per incident case were 1.17. Conclusions The economic burden imposed by PE to society and affected patients is considerable, and productivity loss is its main driver. The disease burden from PE is remarkable and translates to the loss of roughly 1.2 years of healthy life per incident PE case.

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Pulmonary EmbolismVenous ThromboembolismAnticoagulantsCost of IllnessDelivery of Health CareHealth Care CostsHumansRegistriesAnticoagulantsburden of diseasecost‐of‐illnessdisability‐adjusted life yearsdisability weightproductivity losspulmonary embolism

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PMID36250664
PMCPMC9673678
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