The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of dual chamber pacing compared to single pacing for bradycardia - NICE TechnologyAssessment Report

Castelnuovo L, Stein K, Pitt M, Garside R, Payne E
Record ID 32005001014
English
Authors' objectives:

To estimate the effectiveness and costeffectiveness of dual-chamber pacemakers versus single-chamber atrial or single-chamber ventricular pacemakers in the treatment of bradycardia due to sick sinus syndrome (SSS) or atrioventricular block (AVB).

Authors' recommendations: Dual-chamber pacing results in small but potentially important benefits in populations with SSS and/or AVB compared with ventricular pacemakers. Pacemaker syndrome is a crucial factor in determining cost-effectiveness; however, difficulties in standardising diagnosis and measurement of severity make it difficult to quantify. Dual-chamber pacing is in common usage in the UK. Recipients are more likely to be younger. Insufficient evidence is currently available to inform policy on specific groups who may benefit most frompacing with dual-chamber devices. Further important research is underway. Outstanding research priorities include the economic evaluation of UKPACE studies of the classification, diagnosis and utility associated with pacemaker syndrome and evidence on the effectiveness of pacemakers in children.
Details
Project Status: Completed
URL for project: http://www.hta.ac.uk/1386
Year Published: 2005
English language abstract: An English language summary is available
Publication Type: Not Assigned
Country: England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Bradycardia
  • Cardiac Pacing, Artificial
  • Pacemaker, Artificial
Contact
Organisation Name: NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme
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