Journal article
Cost-effectiveness of options for the diagnosis of high blood pressure in primary care: a modelling study.
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BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of hypertension has traditionally been based on blood-pressure measurements in the clinic, but home and ambulatory measurements better correlate with cardiovascular outcome, and ambulatory monitoring is more accurate than both clinic and home monitoring in diagnosing hypertension. We aimed to compare the cost-effectiveness of different diagnostic strategies for hypertension. METHODS: We did a Markov model-based probabilistic cost-effectiveness analysis. We used a hyp...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Lancet
- Volume:
- 378
- Issue:
- 9798
- Pages:
- 1219-1230
- Publication date:
- 2011-10-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1474-547X
- ISSN:
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0140-6736
- Source identifiers:
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192856
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:192856
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- pubs:192856
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2011
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