Economic burden of cancers in Taiwan: a direct and indirect cost estimate for 2007-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Cancers result in significant economic burdens on patients, health sectors and society. Reliable burden estimates will help guide resource allocation. This study aimed to perform a nationwide cost analysis of the direct and indirect costs of the top ten most costly cancers, and acute coronary syndrome (ACS), as a comparison, in Taiwan.

Setting

A population-based cohort study.

Participants

In total, 545 221 patients with newly diagnosed cancer (lung cancer, female breast cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, oral cancer, leukaemia, prostate cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, gastric cancer and oesophageal cancer) and 170 879 patients with ACS between 2007 and 2014 were identified.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Direct medical costs were calcula

SUBMITTER: Huang SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7549455 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature