Cost Effectiveness of Chest Pain Unit Using Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (Timi) Score Risk Stratification

Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations of Units Dedicated to Acute Coronary Syndromes

“…The search strategy for economic evaluations yielded 435 references after removal of duplicate records. Twelve articles were selected for full-text assessment: five partial economic evaluations based on observational studies (cost studies), five modelbased economic evaluations, and two randomized controlled trials in overlap with the second search strategy [3,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. The study selection flowchart for economic evaluations is presented in Figure 1.…”

“…Five partial economic evaluations based on primary observational studies were identified [3,27,28,29,30]. Only the study by Bloom and Peterson [3] described costs of CCU care among higher-risk patients (confirmed MI in 50% of patients), and the remainder of the observational studies reported economic outcomes of CPU care among lower-risk patients.…”