Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy With Defibrillator Using the JROAD-DPC Database: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Kazuki Ohashi   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Masaya Watanabe   ^{2, 3 *} , MD, PhD ;   Yasuhiro Morii   ^{1, 4} , MBA, PhD ;   Hisashi Yokoshiki   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Kengo Kusano   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Katsuhiko Imai   ^{7, 8} , MD, PhD ;   Masahiko Takagi   ⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Teiichi Yamane   ¹⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Hiroshi Tada   ¹¹ , MD, PhD ;   Katsuhiko Ogasawara   ^{1, 12} , MBA, PhD

¹ Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Caress Memorial Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

³ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

⁴ Center for Outcomes Research and Economic Evaluation for Health, National Institute of Public Health, Wako, Saitama, Japan

⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan

⁷ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kure Medical Center, Kure, Hiroshima, Japan

⁸ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

⁹ Division of Cardiac Arrhythmia, Kansai Medical University Medical Centre, Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan

¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

¹¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Fukui, Japan

¹² Faculty of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan

*these authors contributed equally