Parameter Heterogeneity In Breast Cancer Cost Regressions - Evidence From Five European Countries.

ABSTRACT: We investigate parameter heterogeneity in breast cancer 1-year cumulative hospital costs across five European countries as part of the EuroHOPE project. The paper aims to explore whether conditional mean effects provide a suitable representation of the national variation in hospital costs. A cohort of patients with a primary diagnosis of invasive breast cancer (ICD-9 codes 174 and ICD-10 C50 codes) is derived using routinely collected individual breast cancer data from Finland, the metropolitan area of Turin (Italy), Norway, Scotland and Sweden. Conditional mean effects are estimated by ordinary least squares for each country, and quantile regressions are used to explore heterogeneity across the conditional quantile distribution. Point estimates based on conditional mean effects provide a

SUBMITTER: Smith J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5063195 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature