Healthcare Costs at the End of Life for Patients with Non-cancer Diseases and Cancer in Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine costs of care from a healthcare sector perspective within 1 year before death in patients with non-cancer diseases and patients with cancer.

Methods

This nationwide registry-based study identified all Danish citizens dying from major non-cancer diseases or cancer in 2010-2016. Applying the cost-of-illness method, we included costs of somatic hospitals, including hospital-based specialist palliative care, primary care, prescription medicine and hospice expressed in 2022 euros. Costs of patients with non-cancer diseases and cancer were compared using regression analyses adjusting for sex, age, comorbidity, residential region, marital/cohabitation status and income level.

Results

Within 1 year before death, mean total healthcare costs were €27,185 [

SUBMITTER: Vestergaard AHS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10471564 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature