Health services costs for cancer care in Australia: Estimates from the 45 and Up Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cancer care represents a substantial and rapidly rising healthcare cost in Australia. Our aim was to provide accurate population-based estimates of the health services cost of cancer care using large-scale linked patient-level data.

Methods

We analysed data for incident cancers diagnosed 2006-2010 and followed to 2014 among 266,793 eligible participants in the 45 and Up Study. Health system costs included Medicare and pharmaceutical claims, inpatient hospital episodes and emergency department presentations. Costs for cancer cases and matched cancer-free controls were compared, to estimate monthly/annual excess costs of cancer care by cancer type, before and after diagnosis and by phase of care (initial, continuing, terminal). Total costs incurred in 2013 were also

SUBMITTER: Goldsbury DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6066250 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature