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C. A. Botero, C. E. Smith, C. Holbrook, A. C. Pinchak, David Johnson, Dorothy Thomson, Taras Mycyk, M. Burbridge, Irvin Mayers, nR. W. M. Wahba, F. Belque, S. J. Kleiman, Steven Parker, Peter Cox, Helen Holtby, Lawrence Roy, Marc A. St-Amand, John M. Murkin, Donna Baird, Donal B. Downey, Alan H. Menkis, Fan Yang, Éric Troncy, Martin Francœur, Marc Charbonneau, Patrick Vinay, Gilbert Blaise, William M. Splinter, David J. Roberts, Elliot J. Rhine, Helen B. MacNeill, Craig W. Reid, William PS McKay, Miklavs Erjavec, Benjamin W. S. McKay, Peter H. Gregson, Travis Blanchet, Guy Kember, Josée Lavoie, Daniel Vischoff, Louise Cyrenne, Edith Villeneuve, Pierre Williot, A. K. Raghupathy, R. Haug, B. Punjabi, F. Ditzig, Howard Melnik, Michael J. Tessler, L. Jill Krasner, David M. Corda, Kal Solanki, A. Joseph Layon, T. James Gallagher, Daniel P. Stoltzfus, Shannon L. Rabuka, Carol A. Moote, Robert J. B. Chen, Doreen A. Yee, Ellen Harrington, Beverley A. Orser, D. Mitch Giffin, Kenneth W. Gow, P. Terry Phang, Keith R. Walley, C. Brian Warriner, Matthew H. Cohen, Andrew J. Klahsen, Deirdre O’Reilly, John McBride, Margaret Ballantyne, Blair D. Goranson, Scott Lang, William N. Dust, Jeff McKerrell, Guy Martin, René Martin, Daniel Martin, Philippe Valet, Jean-Pierre Tétrault, Caroline Dagenais, Martine Pirlet, Dominique Dansereau, Pedro D’Orléans-Justes, Agnès Jankowska, Yves Veillette, Angela L. Mathieson, Howard Intrater, Lionel Cruickshank, P. C. Duke, B. Y. Ong, Vincent Woo, Donna Schimnowski, Sharon Trosky, Linda Dalton, Ibrahim Zabani, Colin R. Chilvers, Himat Vaghadia, Pamela M. Merrick, Ibrahim Kashkari, Hossam Al-Oufi, D. Jolly, B. T. Finucane, Wolfgang Weyland, Ulrich Fritz, Heike Landmann, Ingrid Schumacher, Michael English, Dietrich Kettler, Catherine M. Duffy, Pirjo H. Manninen, Frances Chung, Shanthini Sundar, Emilio B. Lobato, Orlando Florete, Glenn B. Paige, Thierry Daloze, Daniel A. Chartrand, Denis St-Laurent, Gordon S. Fox, Murray L. Rice, D. John Doyle, George A. Volgyesi, Joseph A. Fisher, Arthur Slutsky, Igor Salazkin, Karen A. Brown, Pradeep Kulkarni, Bibiana Cujec, Randy McCuaig, Tom Hurst, David Antecol, François Bellemare, Jacques Couture, Manon Marchand, Peter McNeil, Orlando Hung, Lily M. Ho-Tai, J. Hugh Devitt, Alva G. Noel, Michael P. O’Donnell, Robert J. Greenhow, Frank W. Cervenko, Brian Milne, Mark D. Peterson, Ian R. Thomson, Robert J. Hudson, Morley Rosenbloom, Michael Moon, Jitender Sareen, H. Locke Bingham, Steven B. Backman, Reuben D. Stein, C. Polosa, Michael Tessler, Salvatore M. Spadafora, John G. Fuller, Lisa Kim, Keyvan Karkouti, D. Keith Rose, Lorraine E. Ferris, DK Rose, MM Cohen, F. E. Ralley, B. DeVarennes, M. Robitaille, Norman Searle, Raymond Martineau, Peter Conzen, A. Al-Hasani, Tom Ebert, Michael Muzi, Jean-François Hardy, Sylvain Bélisle, André Couturier, Danielle Robitaille, Micheline Roy, Lyne Gagnon, Elisabeth J. Avraamides, P. J. Dryden, J. P. O’Connor, W. R. E. Jamieson, I. Reid, D. Ansley, H. Sadeghi, L. H. Burr, A. I. Munro, P. M. Merrick, Mark Benaroia, Andrew Baker, C. David Mazer, Lee Errett, Luc Frenette, Jerry Cox, Donna Kerns, Steve Pearce, David Mark, Paul McDonagh, Lulz DeLlma, Howard Nathan, Jean-Yves Dupuls, J.Earl Wynands, G. C. Moudgil, J. G. Johnson, G. M. Moudgil, Richard I. Hall, Connie MacLaren, M. J. Ali, M. Ballantyne, D. Norris, Stephen D. Beed, Eugene A. Menard, Leon P. Noel, Gary G. Bonn, William Clarke, H. Marion Gould, Leslie E. Hall, Philippe Bernard, Juan Bass, Ramona A. Kearney, Cheryl A. Mack, Lucy M. Entwistle, Joan C. Bevan, Andrew J. Macnab, Guy Veall, Colin Marsland, Craig R. Ries, Shahnaz K. Hamid, Ian R. Selby, Nancy Sikich, Elizabeth Hsu, Patricia McCarthy, Ching-Yue Yang, Wun-Chin Wu, Jiunn-Jye Huang, Shyu-Yin Chen, Hsiang-Ning Luk, Chok-Yung Chai, Gina K. Lafreniere, Donald G. Brunet, Joel L. Parlow, Hossam El-Beheiry, Aviv Ouanounou, Mary Morris, Peter Carlen, Pamela J. Morgan, Roger Chapados, Marlene Gauthier, John W. D. Knox, Jacques LeLorier, Roddy Lin, Keith Rose, Bernadette Garvey, Robert McBrobm, L. C. McAdam, J. F. MacDonald, B. A. Orser, Georgios koutsoukos, Susan Belo, Christopher A. Chin, Brendan O’Hare, Jerrold Lerman, Junko Endo, Arthur E. Schwartz, Oktavijan Minanov, J. Gilbert Stone, David C. Adams, Aqeel A. Sandhu, Mark E. Pearson, William L. Young, Robert E. Michler, Ernest Cutz, Matt M. Kurrek, Marsha M. Cohen, Kevin Fish, Pamela Fish, Patricia Murphy, Donald Fung, Alva Noel, John-Paul Szalai, Ari Robicsek, Joshua Rucker, Joshua Kruger, Mark Slutsky, Leeor Sommer, Jeff Silverman, Jodi Dickstein, Viren Naik, Douglas J. Hemphill, Regina Kurian, Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy, Osama A. Alahdal, N. H. Badner, W. E. Komar, R. Bhandari, R. Craen, D. Cuillerier, W. B. Dobkowski, M. H. Smith, A. N. Vannelli, R. B. Bourne, C. H. Rorabeck, J. A. Doyle, Antoinette Corvo, Richard M. Wahba, Nathalie Scheffer, John Y. C. Tsang, Brad A. Brush, N. Q. N’Guyen, C. Orain, S. Tougui, G. Lavenac, D. Milon, Ewan D. Ritchie, Doris Tong, Andrew Norris, Anthony Miniaci, Santhira D. Vairavanathan, Timothy FitzPatrick, Mark Stafford-Smith, Ken Kardash, Toula Trihas, Simcha J. Kleiman, Michel Rossignol, Dominique Bérard, Brent Martel, J. P. Tétrault, Peter G. Lunt, Dennis W. Coombs, Stephen Halpern, Elizabeth A. Peter, Patricia Janssen, Jill Mahy, M. Joanne Douglas, Caroline S. Grange, Timothy J. Adams, Louis Wadsworth, Holly Muir, Romesh Shukla, Desmond Writer, Richard McLaren, Robert Liston, Don Paetkau, Bill Y. Ong, Ron Segstro, Judy Littleford, Cristina Hurtado, Ananthan Krishnathas, Marcelo Lannes, Joanne Fortier, Jun Su, Rubini Jeganathan, and Suzanne Vaillancourt

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Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, General Medicine
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1996
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2. Long-term Cost-effectiveness in the Veterans Affairs Open vs Endovascular Repair Study of Aortic Abdominal Aneurysm

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Hosam Farouk El Sayed, Cinda Sobotta, Reba Jones, Kellie R. Brown, Henry M. Baraniewski, Amanda J. Snodgrass, C. Keith Ozaki, Fred N. Littooy, Roderick A. Barke, Christian De Virgillio, Richard J. Massen, Anne S. Irwin, Gregory L. Moneta, George Pisimisis, Sister Frances Randall, Sheila M. Coogan, Joseph S. Giglia, Caron Rockman, Richard L. McCann, David Whitley, Erika R. Ketteler, Jeffrey H. Lawson, Matthew W. Mell, John L. Gray, Angela G. Vouyouka, Howard Greisler, Roy M. Fujitani, John W. Hallett, James M. Goff, Kathleen Hickson, Elizabeth Latts, Claudia Yales, Margaret Antonelli, Mina Behdad, Andrea M. Escalante, Karen Chong, Stephen M. Kubaska, Jorge Lopez, Joseph J. Cullen, Glenn C. Hunter, Brenda J. Jasper, John M. Marek, Kimberly Yan, Dennis F. Bandyk, June Poulton, Thomas S. Burdick, Bassem Safadi, Richard J. Gusberg, Sally Reinhardt, Erik Owens, Randy Baum, Robert J. Guerra, Laura Ashe, Mary T. O'Sullivan, Edward Perry, Michael A. Golden, Lynn Durant, Peter H. Lin, Margaret L. Schwarze, Jennifer Poirier, Jessie M. Jean-Claude, Jane Guidot, J. David Pitcher, Elaine O'Brien, Steven J. Busuttil, Stephanie Ross, Darra D. Kingsley, Vicki Bishop, Anna Busman, Kathleen M. Swanson, Rebecca L. Reinhard, Scott Zellner, Beth A. Forbes, John L. Mills, Carmelene Joncas, Georgia Purviance, Theodore Karrison, Sherilyn Pillack, Christine Maagas, Mark Langsfeld, Nancy Oberle, Stephen G. Lalka, Clair M. Haakenson, Carlos F. Bechara, Scott A. Berceli, Murray L. Shames, Michelle A. Bhola, Mary Le Gwin, Anna Rockich, Stephen P. Johnson, Robert W. Zickler, Julie A. Freischlag, John P. Matts, Heather G. Allore, Christian Bianchi, Bernadette Aulivola, Terry O'Connor, Richard A. Yeager, Brad Johnson, Ronald M. Fairman, John F. Eidt, Melita Braganza, Alice Kossack, Rajni Mehta, Bauer E. Sumpio, David Minion, Joseph H. Rapp, Brajesh K. Lal, Michelle Endo, Jon S. Matsumura, Iraklis I. Pipinos, Melanie Estes, Girma Tefera, Mitzi Rusomaroff, Gregory J. Landry, John R. Hoch, Cindy Inman, Janice Rieder, Loretta Cole, Gary Lemmon, Shemuel B. Psalms, James M. Edwards, Ted R. Kohler, Peter R. Nelson, David A. Katz, Hugh A. Gelabert, James Ebaugh, Brian D. Lewis, Nancy N. Day, Nikhil Kansal, Glenn R. Jacobowitz, Ruth L. Bush, Reverend Michael Zeman, Sandra M. Walsh, Jill Warner-Carpenter, Catherine Cagiannos, Mark R. Nehler, Carlos H. Timaran, Prakash Chand, Leah J. Caropolo, Ling Ge, Shirley Joyner, Karen Eschberger, Mohammed Moursi, Michael P. Lilly, Susan Framberg, Christa Kallio, Robyn A. Macsata, Barbara Salabsky, Charles W. Acher, Frank A. Lederle, Jason M. Johanning, Tammy Nguyen, Gerald Treiman, Ian L. Gordon, Deanna Maples, Catherine Proebstle, Joy Kimbrough, William Farrell, Satish Muluk, Gilles Pinault, Beth Dunlap, Sandra C. Carr, William D. Jordan, Erin Olgren, Thomas A. Whitehill, Donald Beckwith, Peter Guarino, Lloyd M. Taylor, Wendy Meadows, Vanessa McBride, Subodh Arora, James Niederman, E. Lynne Kelly, Jonathan Weiswasser, David G. Glickerman, Gene Guinn, Pamela Strecker, Bart E. Muhs, Eleanor Cannady, Heron E. Rodriguez, Christopher Owens, Karen L. Wilson, Shawna Thunen, Elizabeth Davis, Stanislav V. Kasl, Shelley S. Dwyer, Julie Thornton, Maria Foster, Vickie Beach, Doghdoo D. Bahmani, Penny Vasilas, Luis R. Leon, Matthew Nalbandian, Reza Azadegan, Diane C. Robertson, Richard A. Marottoli, Ross Milner, John M. Stuart, David A. Rigberg, Nina M. Peterson, Mary Evans, David Chew, Subhash Lathi, Nadine White, Macario Riveros, Jeffrey Pollak, Timothy J. O'Leary, Yvonne Jonk, Frank T. Padberg, Richard Feldman, Stephanie Hatton-Ward, J. Gregory Modrall, Paul J. Gagne, James Wong, Kimberly Pedersen, Norman Hertzer, Brian D. Matteson, Wei Zhou, Nina Lee, Mark W. Sebastian, Steven M. Santilli, William C. Krupski, Neal Cayne, Anton N. Sidawy, Neal R. Barshes, Christina Paap, Sherry M. Wren, Alex Westerband, Sandra Brock, Vivian Gahtan, John D. Hughes, Panagiotis Kougias, Jonathan B. Towne, Michael Ranella, W. Anthony Lee, Ryan Nachreiner, Cynthia K. Shortell, Patricia A. Prinzo, Kea Ellis, Ronald L. Dalman, Thomas G. Lynch, Karthikeshwar Kasirajan, H. Edward Garrett, Joaquim J. Cerveira, Peter Peduzzi, Marcelo Spector, Carla Blackwell, Omran Abul-Khoudoud, Dolores F. Cikrit, Jean Kistler Tetterton, Martin Back, Darrell N. Jones, Darryl S. Weiman, Donna Kerns, Mark Wilson, Preet Kang, Kenneth Granke, Gary R. Johnson, Linda M. Reilly, Marilyn Bader, Lauri Lee Johnson, Ravi K. Veeraswamy, Sandra L. Perez, W. John Sharp, Gary R. Seabrook, Karthnik Kasirajan, Brenda Allende, John D. Corson, Kathy Zalecki, Joseph D. Raffetto, Thomas H. Schwarcz, Mark A. Patterson, Matthew Eiseman, John K.Y. Chacko, Mark Adelman, Holly De Spiegelaere, Alan Dardik, Madeline Ruf, Kevin T. Stroupe, Grant D. Huang, M. Burress Welborn, Alexandre C. D'Audiffret, Rajaabrata Sarkar, Michael Sobel, Steve M. Taylor, Barbara Guillory, Sandra C. Thomas, Thomas S. Hatsukami, Robert A. Cambria, Jeanne L. McCandless, Susan Stratton, Cindy Cushing, Karen A. Hauck, Atef Salam, Melina R. Kibbe, Tassos C. Kyriakides, Amy B. Reed, Jason T. Lee, Jamal J. Hoballah, Marc E. Mitchell, Hasan H. Dosluoglu, Marc A. Passman, Edith Tzeng, Patricia Cleary, and John Aruny

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Diagnostic Imaging, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Time Factors, Cost effectiveness, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Comparative effectiveness research, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, 030230 surgery, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Randomized controlled trial, law, Humans, Medicine, cardiovascular diseases, Veterans Affairs, health care economics and organizations, Aged, Intention-to-treat analysis, business.industry, Endovascular Procedures, Health Care Costs, Length of Stay, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Abdominal aortic aneurysm, Quality-adjusted life year, Surgery, Elective Surgical Procedures, Quality of Life, Health Resources, Female, Quality-Adjusted Life Years, business, Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal, Follow-Up Studies, Abdominal surgery
Abstract

Importance Because of the similarity in clinical outcomes after elective open and endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), cost may be an important factor in choosing a procedure. Objective To compare total and AAA-related use of health care services, costs, and cost-effectiveness between groups randomized to open or endovascular repair. Design, Setting, and Participants This unblinded randomized clinical trial enrolled 881 patients undergoing planned elective repair of AAA who were candidates for open and endovascular repair procedures. Patients were randomized from October 15, 2002, to April 15, 2008, at 42 Veterans Affairs medical centers. Follow-up was completed on October 15, 2011, and data were analyzed from April 15, 2013, to April 15, 2016, based on intention to treat. Main Outcomes and Measures Mean total and AAA-related health care cost per life-year and per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY). Results A total of 881 patients (876 men [99.4%]; 5 women [0.6%]; mean [SD] age, 70 [7.8] years) were included in the analysis. After a mean of 5.2 years of follow-up, mean life-years were 4.89 in the endovascular group and 4.84 in the open repair group ( P = .68), and mean QALYs were 3.72 in the endovascular group and 3.70 in the open repair group ( P = .82). Total mean health care costs did not differ significantly between the 2 groups (endovascular group, $142 745; open repair group, $153 533; difference, −$10 788; 95% CI, −$29 796 to $5825; P = .25). Costs related to AAA, including the initial repair, constituted nearly 40% of total costs and did not differ significantly between the 2 groups (endovascular group, $57 501; open repair group, $57 893; difference, −$393; 95% CI, −$12 071 to $7928; P = .94). Lower costs due to shorter hospitalization for initial endovascular repair were offset by increased costs from AAA-related secondary procedures and imaging studies. The probability of endovascular repair being less costly and more effective was 56.8% when effectiveness was measured in life-years and 55.4% when effectiveness was measured in QALYs for total costs and 31.3% and 34.3%, respectively, for AAA-related costs. Conclusions and Relevance In this multicenter randomized clinical trial with follow-up to 9 years, survival, quality of life, costs, and cost-effectiveness did not differ between elective open and endovascular repair of AAA. Trial Registration clinicaltrials.gov Identifier:NCT00094575

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2016
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3. The Relationship of High-Intensity Signals on Magnetic Resonance Images to Cognitive and Psychiatric State in Alzheimer's Disease

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Ross Callaway, Ernest Duvall, Alfred A. Bartolucci, Lindy E. Harrell, Donna Kerns, Linda W. Duke, David G. Folks, and Thomas J. Conboy

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medicine.medical_specialty, Neuropsychological Tests, White matter, Cognition, Degenerative disease, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Alzheimer Disease, medicine, Humans, Psychiatry, Depression (differential diagnoses), Aged, medicine.diagnostic_test, Neuropsychology, Brain, Magnetic resonance imaging, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, medicine.anatomical_structure, Hypertension, Neurology (clinical), Alzheimer's disease, Psychology, Neuroanatomy
Abstract

• In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the relationship between white-matter changes on magnetic resonance images and behavior are unclear. Therefore, magnetic resonance images, cognition, and psychiatric state were assessed in patients with AD with depression (AD/DEP; n = 18) and without depression (AD; n = 45), older depressed patients (n = 12) and older normal individuals (n = 25). High-intensity signals in the cortex and subcortical regions were similar in number and proportions among all groups, even when hypertensive patients were excluded. No correlations to cognitive or psychiatric state were found. Periventricular signals were categorized using a 1- (absent) to 6- (thick, irregular caps and stripes) point scale. The categories were similar among groups except that patients with AD exhibited more category 5 changes than did normal subjects, neuropsychological performance was significantly worse in patients with AD who had category 5 and 6 changes when compared to those in category 1. These results suggest that periventricular changes may predict poor neuropsychological performance in patients with AD. However, neither deep white-matter lesions nor periventricular changes are useful for diagnostic purposes.

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1991
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4. Costs of repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm with different devices in a multicenter randomized trial

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Jon S. Matsumura, Kevin T. Stroupe, Frank A. Lederle, Tassos C. Kyriakides, Ling Ge, Julie A. Freischlag, Erika R. Ketteler, Darra D. Kingsley, John M. Marek, Richard J. Massen, Brian D. Matteson, J. David Pitcher, Mark Langsfeld, John D. Corson, James M. Goff, Karthnik Kasirajan, Christina Paap, Diane C. Robertson, Atef Salam, Ravi Veeraswamy, Ross Milner, Karthikeshwar Kasirajan, Jane Guidot, Brajesh K. Lal, Steven J. Busuttil, Michael P. Lilly, Melita Braganza, Kea Ellis, Mark A. Patterson, William D. Jordan, David Whitley, Steve Taylor, Marc Passman, Donna Kerns, Cindy Inman, Jennifer Poirier, James Ebaugh, Joseph Raffetto, David Chew, Subhash Lathi, Christopher Owens, Kathleen Hickson, Hasan H. Dosluoglu, Karen Eschberger, Melina R. Kibbe, Henry M. Baraniewski, Jon Matsumura, Michelle Endo, Anna Busman, Wendy Meadows, Mary Evans, Joseph S. Giglia, Hosam El Sayed, Amy B. Reed, Madeline Ruf, Stephanie Ross, Jessie M. Jean-Claude, Gilles Pinault, Preet Kang, Nadine White, Matthew Eiseman, Reba Jones, Carlos H. Timaran, J. Gregory Modrall, M. Burress Welborn, Jorge Lopez, Tammy Nguyen, John K.Y. Chacko, Kenneth Granke, Angela G. Vouyouka, Erin Olgren, Prakash Chand, Brenda Allende, Michael Ranella, Claudia Yales, Thomas A. Whitehill, William C. Krupski, Mark R. Nehler, Stephen P. Johnson, Darrell N. Jones, Pamela Strecker, Michelle A. Bhola, Cynthia K. Shortell, John L. Gray, Jeffrey H. Lawson, Richard McCann, Mark W. Sebastian, Jean Kistler Tetterton, Carla Blackwell, Patricia A. Prinzo, Nina Lee, Frank T. Padberg, Joaquim J. Cerveira, Robert W. Zickler, Karen A. Hauck, Scott A. Berceli, W. Anthony Lee, C. Keith Ozaki, Peter R. Nelson, Anne S. Irwin, Randy Baum, Bernadette Aulivola, Heron Rodriguez, Fred N. Littooy, Howard Greisler, Mary T. O'Sullivan, Panagiotis Kougias, Peter H. Lin, Ruth L. Bush, Gene Guinn, Catherine Cagiannos, Sherilyn Pillack, Barbara Guillory, Dolores Cikrit, Stephen G. Lalka, Gary Lemmon, Ryan Nachreiner, Mitzi Rusomaroff, Elaine O'Brien, Joseph J. Cullen, Jamal Hoballah, W. John Sharp, Jeanne L. McCandless, Vickie Beach, David Minion, Thomas H. Schwarcz, Joy Kimbrough, Laura Ashe, Anna Rockich, Jill Warner-Carpenter, Mohammed Moursi, John F. Eidt, Sandra Brock, Christian Bianchi, Vicki Bishop, Ian L. Gordon, Roy Fujitani, Stephen M. Kubaska, Mina Behdad, Reza Azadegan, Christine Ma Agas, Kathy Zalecki, John R. Hoch, Sandra C. Carr, Charles Acher, Margaret Schwarze, Girma Tefera, Matthew Mell, Beth Dunlap, Janice Rieder, John M. Stuart, Darryl S. Weiman, Omran Abul-Khoudoud, H. Edward Garrett, Sandra M. Walsh, Karen L. Wilson, Gary R. Seabrook, Robert A. Cambria, Kellie R. Brown, Brian D. Lewis, Susan Framberg, Christa Kallio, Roderick A. Barke, Steven M. Santilli, Alexandre C. d'Audiffret, Nancy Oberle, Catherine Proebstle, Lauri Lee Johnson, Glenn R. Jacobowitz, Neal Cayne, Caron Rockman, Mark Adelman, Paul Gagne, Matthew Nalbandian, Leah J. Caropolo, Iraklis I. Pipinos, Jason Johanning, Thomas Lynch, Holly DeSpiegelaere, Georgia Purviance, Wei Zhou, Ronald Dalman, Jason T. Lee, Bassem Safadi, Sheila M. Coogan, Sherry M. Wren, Doghdoo D. Bahmani, Deanna Maples, Shawna Thunen, Michael A. Golden, Marc E. Mitchell, Ronald Fairman, Sally Reinhardt, Mark A. Wilson, Edith Tzeng, Satish Muluk, Nina M. Peterson, Maria Foster, James Edwards, Gregory L. Moneta, Gregory Landry, Lloyd Taylor, Richard Yeager, Eleanor Cannady, Gerald Treiman, Stephanie Hatton-Ward, Barbara Salabsky, Nikhil Kansal, Erik Owens, Melanie Estes, Beth A. Forbes, Cinda Sobotta, Joseph H. Rapp, Linda M. Reilly, Sandra L. Perez, Kimberly Yan, Rajaabrata Sarkar, Shelley S. Dwyer, Ted R. Kohler, Thomas S. Hatsukami, David G. Glickerman, Michael Sobel, Thomas S. Burdick, Kimberly Pedersen, Patricia Cleary, Martin Back, Dennis Bandyk, Brad Johnson, Murray Shames, Rebecca L. Reinhard, Sandra C. Thomas, Glenn C. Hunter, Luis R. Leon, Alex Westerband, Robert J. Guerra, Macario Riveros, John L. Mills, John D. Hughes, Andrea M. Escalante, Shemuel B. Psalms, Nancy N. Day, Robyn Macsata, Anton Sidawy, Jonathan Weiswasser, Subodh Arora, Brenda J. Jasper, Alan Dardik, Vivian Gahtan, Bart E. Muhs, Bauer E. Sumpio, Richard J. Gusberg, Marcelo Spector, Jeffrey Pollak, John Aruny, E. Lynne Kelly, James Wong, Penny Vasilas, Carmelene Joncas, Hugh A. Gelabert, Christian DeVirgillio, David A. Rigberg, and Loretta Cole

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medicine.medical_specialty, Time Factors, medicine.medical_treatment, Prosthesis Design, Endovascular aneurysm repair, law.invention, Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation, Aortic aneurysm, Randomized controlled trial, law, Blood vessel prosthesis, Health care, medicine, Humans, Hospital Costs, Veterans Affairs, health care economics and organizations, Health economics, business.industry, Endovascular Procedures, Health Care Costs, Length of Stay, medicine.disease, United States, Abdominal aortic aneurysm, Blood Vessel Prosthesis, Surgery, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Treatment Outcome, Stents, Health Expenditures, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal
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Objective Prior analysis in the Open vs Endovascular Repair Veterans Affairs (VA) Cooperative Study (CSP #498) demonstrated that survival, quality of life, and total health care costs are not significantly different between the open and endovascular methods of repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm. The device is a major cost of this method of repair, and the objective of this study was to evaluate the costs of the device, abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, and total health care costs when different endograft systems are selected for the endovascular repair (EVR). Within each selected system, EVR costs are compared with open repair costs. Methods The study randomized 881 patients to open (n = 437) or EVR (n = 444). Device selection was recorded before randomization; therefore, open repair controls were matched to each device cohort. Data were excluded for two low-volume devices, implanted in only 13 individuals, leaving 423 control and 431 endovascular patients: 166 Zenith (Cook Medical, Bloomington, Ind), 177 Excluder (W. L. Gore & Associates, Flagstaff, Ariz), and 88 AneuRx (Medtronic, Minneapolis, Minn). Mean device, hospitalization, and total health care costs from randomization to 2 years were compared. Health care utilization data were obtained from patients and national VA and Medicare data sources. VA costs were determined using methods previously developed by the VA Health Economics Resource Center. Non-VA costs were obtained from Medicare claims data and billing data from the patient's health care providers. Results Implant costs were 38% of initial hospitalization costs. Mean device (range, $13,600-$14,400), initial hospitalization (range, $34,800-$38,900), and total health care costs at 2 years in the endovascular (range, $72,400-$78,200) and open repair groups (range, $75,600-$82,100) were not significantly different among device systems. Differences between endovascular and corresponding open repair cohorts showed lower mean costs for EVR (range, $3200-$8300), but these were not statistically different. Conclusions The implant costs of endovascular aneurysm repair are substantial. When evaluating total health care system expenditures, there is large individual variability in costs, and there is no significant difference at 2 years among systems or when an individual system is compared with open repair.

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2015
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