Drug-Eluting Stent Use Among Low-Income Patients in Maharashtra After Statewide Price Reductions

Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2019 Apr;12(4):e007757. doi: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.118.007757.
No abstract available

Keywords: coronary artery disease; drug-eluting stent; human; percutaneous coronary intervention; vulnerable population.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Coronary Artery Disease / economics*
  • Coronary Artery Disease / therapy*
  • Cost Control
  • Drug-Eluting Stents / economics*
  • Female
  • Health Care Costs*
  • Health Services Accessibility / economics*
  • Hospital Costs
  • Hospitals, Private / economics
  • Hospitals, Public / economics
  • Humans
  • Income*
  • India
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / economics*
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / instrumentation*
  • Poverty / economics*