Dickstein K, Cohen-Solal A, Filippatos G, McMurray JJ, Ponikowski P, Poole-Wilson PA, et al. ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008: the task force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the heart failure association of the ESC (HFA) and endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). Eur Heart J. 2008;29(19):2388–442.
Redfield MM, Jacobsen SJ, Burnett JC Jr, Mahoney DW, Bailey KR, Rodeheffer RJ. Burden of systolic and diastolic ventricular dysfunction in the community: appreciating the scope of the heart failure epidemic. JAMA. 2003;289(2):194–202.
Remme WJ, Swedberg K. Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure. Eur Heart J. 2001;22(17):1527–60.
Go AS, Mozaffarian D, Roger VL, Benjamin EJ, Berry JD, Blaha MJ, et al. Heart disease and stroke statistics--2014 update: a report from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2014;129(3):e28–e292.
Biermann J, Neumann T, Angermann CE, Düngen HD, Erbel R, Herzog W, et al. Resource use and costs in systolic heart failure according to disease severity: a pooled analysis from the German competence network heart failure. Journal of Public Health (Germany). 2012;20(1):23–30.
Liao L, Allen LA, Whellan DJ. Economic burden of heart failure in the elderly. PharmacoEconomics. 2008;26(6):447–62.
Braunschweig F, Cowie MR, Auricchio A. What are the costs of heart failure? Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : Journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology. 2011;13 Suppl 2:ii13–ii17.
Bundkirchen A, Schwinger RHG. Epidemiology and economic burden of chronic heart failure. European Heart Journal, Supplement. 2004;6(D):D57–60.
Reed SD, Whellan DJ, Li Y, Friedman JY, Ellis SJ, Pina IL, et al. Economic evaluation of the HF-ACTION (heart failure: a controlled trial investigating outcomes of exercise training) randomized controlled trial: an exercise training study of patients with chronic heart failure. Circulation Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2010;3(4):374–81.
Pocock SJ, Ariti CA, McMurray JJ, Maggioni A, Kober L, Squire IB, et al. Predicting survival in heart failure: a risk score based on 39 372 patients from 30 studies. Eur Heart J. 2013;34(19):1404–13.
Ranasinghe I, Wang Y, Dharmarajan K, Hsieh AF, Bernheim SM, Krumholz HM. Readmissions after hospitalization for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia among young and middle-aged adults: a retrospective observational cohort study. PLoS Med. 2014;11(9):e1001737.
Cook C, Cole G, Asaria P, Jabbour R, Francis DP. The annual global economic burden of heart failure. Int J Cardiol. 2014;171(3):368–76.
Wimo A. The art of cost of illness. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 2010;19(2):617–9.
Wang XJ, Lopez SE, Chan A. Economic burden of chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia in patients with lymphoma: a systematic review. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2015;94(2):201–12.
Larg A, Moss JR. Cost-of-illness studies: a guide to critical evaluation. PharmacoEconomics. 2011;29(8):653–71.
Moher D, Altman DG, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J. PRISMA statement. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass). 2011;22(1):128. author reply
Evers S, Goossens M, de Vet H, van Tulder M, Ament A. Criteria list for assessment of methodological quality of economic evaluations: consensus on health economic criteria. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 2005;21(2):240–5.
Drummond MF, Jefferson TO. Guidelines for authors and peer reviewers of economic submissions to the BMJ. The BMJ economic evaluation working party. BMJ (Clin Res ed). 1996;313(7052):275–83.
Owan TE, Hodge DO, Herges RM, Jacobsen SJ, Roger VL, Redfield MM. Trends in prevalence and outcome of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. N Engl J Med. 2006;355(3):251–9.
OECD. Consumer Price Index. 2016.
OECD. PPP. 2016.
Payne KA, Huybrechts KF, Caro JJ, Craig Green TJ, Klittich WS. Long term cost-of-illness in stroke: an international review. PharmacoEconomics. 2002;20(12):813–25.
Liao L, Anstrom KJ, Gottdiener JS, Pappas PA, Whellan DJ, Kitzman DW, et al. Long-term costs and resource use in elderly participants with congestive heart failure in the cardiovascular health study. Am Heart J. 2007;153(2):245–52.
Bogner HR, Miller SD, de Vries HF, Chhatre S, Jayadevappa R. Assessment of cost and health resource utilization for elderly patients with heart failure and diabetes mellitus. J Card Fail. 2010;16(6):454–60.
Liao L, Jollis JG, Anstrom KJ, Whellan DJ, Kitzman DW, Aurigemma GP, et al. Costs for heart failure with normal vs reduced ejection fraction. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166(1):112–8.
Ory C, Vanderplas A, Dezii C, Chang E. Congestive heart failure: attributable costs within the managed care setting. Journal of Pharmaceutical Finance, Economics and Policy. 2005;14(2):87–97.
Murphy TM, Waterhouse DF, James S, Casey C, Fitzgerald E, O'Connell E, et al. A comparison of HFrEF vs HFpEF's clinical workload and cost in the first year following hospitalization and enrollment in a disease management program. Int J Cardiol. 2017;232:330–5.
Agvall B, Borgquist L, Foldevi M, Dahlstrom U. Cost of heart failure in Swedish primary healthcare. Scand J Prim Health Care. 2005;23(4):227–32.
Neumann T, Biermann J, Neumann A, Wasem J, Ertl G, Dietz R, et al. Heart failure: the commonest reason for hospitalization in Germany - medical and economic perspectives. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2009;106(16):269–75.
Zugck C, Muller A, Helms TM, Wildau HJ, Becks T, Hacker J, et al. Health economic impact of heart failure: an analysis of the nationwide German database. Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946). 2010;135(13):633–8.
Lee H, Oh SH, Cho H, Cho HJ, Kang HY. Prevalence and socio-economic burden of heart failure in an aging society of South Korea. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2016;16(1):215.
Ogah OS, Stewart S, Onwujekwe OE, Falase AO, Adebayo SO, Olunuga T, et al. Economic burden of heart failure: investigating outpatient and inpatient costs in Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria. PLoS One. 2014;9(11):e113032.
Corrao G, Ghirardi A, Ibrahim B, Merlino L, Maggioni AP. Burden of new hospitalization for heart failure: a population-based investigation from Italy. Eur J Heart Fail. 2014;
Dunlay SM, Shah ND, Shi Q, Morlan B, VanHouten H, Long KH, et al. Lifetime costs of medical care after heart failure diagnosis. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2011;4(1):68–75.
Voigt J, Sasha John M, Taylor A, Krucoff M, Reynolds MR, Michael Gibson C. A reevaluation of the costs of heart failure and its implications for allocation of health resources in the United States. Clin Cardiol. 2014;37(5):312-21.
Czech M, Opolski G, Zdrojewski T, Dubiel JS, Wizner B, Bolisega D, et al. The costs of heart failure in Poland from the public payer's perspective. Polish programme assessing diagnostic procedures, treatment and costs in patients with heart failure in randomly selected outpatient clinics and hospitals at different levels of care: POLKARD. Kardiol Pol. 2013;71(3):224–32.
Delgado JF, Oliva J, Llano M, Pascual-Figal D, Grillo JJ, Comin-Colet J, et al. Health care and nonhealth care costs in the treatment of patients with symptomatic chronic heart failure in Spain. Rev Esp Cardiol. 2014;67(8):643-50.
Stafylas P, Farmakis D, Kourlaba G, Giamouzis G, Tsarouhas K, Maniadakis N, et al. The heart failure pandemic: the clinical and economic burden in Greece. Int J Cardiol. 2017;227:923–9.
Stewart S, Jenkins A, Buchan S, McGuire A, Capewell S, McMurray JJ. The current cost of heart failure to the National Health Service in the UK. Eur J Heart Fail. 2002;4(3):361–71.
Berry C, Murdoch DR, McMurray JJ. Economics of chronic heart failure. Eur J Heart Fail. 2001;3(3):283–91.
Unroe KT, Greiner MA, Hernandez AF, Whellan DJ, Kaul P, Schulman KA, et al. Resource use in the last 6 months of life among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, 2000-2007. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171(3):196–203.
Kaul P, McAlister FA, Ezekowitz JA, Bakal JA, Curtis LH, Quan H, et al. Resource use in the last 6 months of life among patients with heart failure in Canada. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171(3):211–7.
Khand AU, Shaw M, Gemmel I, Cleland JG. Do discharge codes underestimate hospitalisation due to heart failure? Validation study of hospital discharge coding for heart failure. Eur J Heart Fail. 2005;7(5):792–7.
Goff DC Jr, Pandey DK, Chan FA, Ortiz C, Nichaman MZ. Congestive heart failure in the United States: is there more than meets the I(CD code)? The Corpus Christi heart project. Arch Intern Med. 2000;160(2):197–202.
Callender T, Woodward M, Roth G, Farzadfar F, Lemarie JC, Gicquel S, et al. Heart failure care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Med. 2014;11(8):e1001699.
Abraham WT, Adamson PB, Bourge RC, Aaron MF, Costanzo MR, Stevenson LW, et al. Wireless pulmonary artery haemodynamic monitoring in chronic heart failure: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet (London, England). 2011;377(9766):658–66.
Abraham WT, Stevenson LW, Bourge RC, Lindenfeld JA, Bauman JG, Adamson PB. Sustained efficacy of pulmonary artery pressure to guide adjustment of chronic heart failure therapy: complete follow-up results from the CHAMPION randomised trial. Lancet (London, England). 2016;387(10017):453–61.
Dagres N, Hindricks G. Pulmonary pressure, telemedicine, and heart failure therapy. Lancet (London, England). 2016;387(10017):408–10.
Kolominsky-Rabas PL, Kriza C, Djanatliev A, Meier F, Uffenorde S, Radeleff J, et al. Health economic impact of a pulmonary artery pressure sensor for heart failure Telemonitoring: a dynamic simulation. Telemed J E Health. 2016;22(10):798-808.