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1 An economic evaluation of lung transplantation
Ani C. Anyanwu, MSc, MD, FRCS, Alistair McGuire, PhD, Chris A. Rogers, PhD, A.J. Murday, MA, MS, FRCS  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  Volume 123, Issue 3, Pages (March 2002) DOI: /mtc Copyright © 2002 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

2 Fig. 1 Survival differrence between medical treatment and transplantation calculated as differrence in area under curve at discount rate of 6%Solid rule, Medical treatment;short dashes, single-lung transplantation (2.0 life-years gained);long dashes, double-lung transplantation (2.4 life-years gained);alternating short and long dashes, heart-lung transplantation (2.5 life-years gained). The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /mtc ) Copyright © 2002 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

3 Fig. 2 Breakdown of transplantation costs.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /mtc ) Copyright © 2002 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

4 Fig. 3 Effect of varying utility value and posttransplantation maintenance cost on cost per QALY estimates for single-lung transplantation.Horizontal line defines study cost-utility value of £30,000 per QALY.Diamonds, £250 cost;squares, £500 cost;triangles, £1000 cost. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /mtc ) Copyright © 2002 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions


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