Cost-effectiveness analysis of rehabilitation with exercise and respiratory therapy in pulmonary hypertension

Background: Exercise training as add-on to medical therapy has shown to improve exercise capacity, quality of life and possibly prognosis in patients with severe chronic pulmonary hypertension (PH). Aim of this study was to analyze the impact of exercise training on health-care costs in PH. Methods: Estimated health care costs have been compared between patients with severe PH who received exercise training in addition to optimized medical therapy (training-group) and an age-gender matched control group who received medical therapy only. Cost-analysis was based on a cost-estimation model and included the estimat…