Economic evaluation of bivalirudin with provisional glycoprotein IIB/IIIA inhibition versus heparin with routine glycoprotein IIB/IIIA inhibition for percutaneous coronary intervention
Results from the REPLACE-2 trial
David J. Cohen, MD, MSc*,
,*,
A. Michael Lincoff, MD
,
Tara A. Lavelle, BS
,
Huei-Ling Chen, PhD
,
Ameet Bakhai, MD*,
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Ronna H. Berezin, MPH
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Daniel Jackman, MD
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Ian J. Sarembock, MB, ChB|| and
Eric J. Topol, MD
* Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Mother Frances Hospital, Tyler, Texas, USA
|| Cardiovascular Division and Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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Figure 1 Stratified analyses of aggregate 30-day costs by treatment group according to prespecified patient characteristics. The graph indicates the mean difference in costs between the bivalirudin + provisional glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa and heparin + routine GP IIb/IIIa groups (black squares) along with the associated 95% confidence interval (bars). There was no evidence of heterogeneity of treatment effect across any of the subgroups (p value for interaction >0.05).
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