Palliative Care Costs in Different Ambulatory-Based Settings: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cost-of-illness studies in palliative care are of growing interest in health economics. There is no standard methodology to capture direct and non-direct healthcare and non-healthcare expenses incurred by health services, patients and their caregivers in the course of the ambulatory palliative care process.

Objective

We aimed to describe the type of healthcare and non-healthcare expenses incurred by patients with cancer and non-cancer patients and their caregivers for palliative care in ambulatory-based settings and the methodology used to capture the data.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review of studies on the costs of ambulatory-based palliative care in patients with cancer (breast, lung, colorectal) and non-cancer conditions (chronic heart failure, c

SUBMITTER: Perea-Bello AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10861396 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature