Comparative Costs to Medicare and Medicare Beneficiaries of Alternative AF Stroke Risk Reduction Strategies

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Medicare 64%
• Risk Reduction Behavior 63%
• Atrial Appendage 52%
• Warfarin 43%
• Stroke 42%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 38%
• Anticoagulants 33%
• Economic Models 7%
• Shared Decision Making 6%
• Health Care Costs 4%
• Atrial Fibrillation 4%
• Economics 4%
• Meta-Analysis 3%
• Equipment and Supplies 3%
• Therapeutics 1%

Business & Economics

• Medicare 83%
• Risk Reduction 68%
• Closure 41%
• Alternatives 29%
• Costs 23%
• Atrial Fibrillation 9%
• Shared Decision Making 7%
• Health Care Costs 5%
• Economic Consequences 5%
• Reimbursement 5%
• Burden 4%
• Therapy 4%

Social Sciences

• comparative costs 100%
• stroke 71%
• costs 35%
• event 8%
• clinical outcomes 6%
• prophylaxis 6%
• economic model 5%
• Healthcare 3%
• decision making 3%
• economics 2%