The Indirect Cost Burden of Cancer Care in Canada: A Systematic Literature Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Cancer poses a substantial health and economic burden on patients and caregivers in Canada. Previous reviews have estimated the indirect cost burden as work-related productivity losses associated with cancer. However, these estimates require updating and complementing with more comprehensive data that include relevant dimensions beyond labor market costs, such as patient time, lost leisure time and home productivity losses.

Methods

A systematic review of the literature was conducted to identify studies published from 2006 to 2020 that measured and reported the indirect costs borne by cancer patients and their caregivers in Canada, from the patient, caregiver, employer, and societal perspectives. Study characteristics and cost estimation methods were

SUBMITTER: Iragorri N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8060233 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature