Health related quality of life and costs in U.S. Dollars.

ALGH = Advocate Lutheran General Hospital; PTA = Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty; PAD = Peripheral Arterial Disease.*Values based on responses on the EuroQol-questionaire [59], [60].†Average Time Trade-off value among survivors of a myocardial infarction, used as a proxy for the effect on quality of life of a systemic complication[37].‡Assumes that in 43% of the cases a stent is placed [29].§Costs were converted to the year 2005.¶Based on the average number of sessions patients completed in ALGH.∥Costs are average costs of MRA and DSA because they were performed in the same proportion in ALHG.**Costs are costs per event.††numbers are 95% CIs for the lognormal distributions and ranges for the uniform distributions.