Cost-Consequence Analysis Alongside a Randomised Controlled Trial of Hospital Versus Telephone Follow-Up after Treatment for Endometrial Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Regular outpatient follow-up programmes are usually offered to patients following treatment for gynaecological and other cancers. Despite the substantial resources involved in providing these programmes, there is evidence that routine follow-up programmes do not affect survival or the likelihood of detecting recurrence and may not meet patient needs. Alternative follow-up modalities may offer the same outcomes at lower cost. We examined the costs of using telephone-based routine follow-up of women treated for endometrial cancer undertaken by specialist gynaecology oncology nurses in comparison to routine hospital-based follow-up.

Methods

The ENDCAT trial randomised 259 women at five centres in the north west of England with a known diagnosis of Stage I endometrial

SUBMITTER: Dixon P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5940716 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature