Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Screening for and Managing Identified Hypertension for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Vietnam.

OBJECTIVE:To inform development of guidelines for hypertension management in Vietnam, we evaluated the cost-effectiveness of different strategies on screening for hypertension in preventing cardiovascular disease (CVD). METHODS:A decision tree was combined with a Markov model to measure incremental...

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Main Authors: Thi-Phuong-Lan Nguyen, E Pamela Wright, Thanh-Trung Nguyen, C C M Schuiling-Veninga, M J Bijlsma, Thi-Bach-Yen Nguyen, M J Postma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4871542?pdf=render