The economic burden of cancer care in Canada: a population-based cost study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Resource and cost issues are a growing concern in health care. Thus, it is important to have an accurate estimate of the economic burden of care. Previous work has estimated the economic burden of cancer care for Canada; however, there is some concern this estimate is too low. The objective of this analysis was to provide a comprehensive revised estimate of this burden.

Methods

We used a case-control prevalence-based approach to estimate direct annual cancer costs from 2005 to 2012. We used patient-level administrative health care data from Ontario to correctly attribute health care costs to cancer. We employed the net cost method (cost difference between patients with cancer and control subjects without cancer) to account for costs directly and indirectly related

SUBMITTER: de Oliveira C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5878959 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature