Estimated Indirect Cost Savings of Using Telehealth Among Nonelderly Patients With Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patients with cancer typically have greater financial hardships and time costs than individuals without cancer. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this, while posing substantial challenges to delivering cancer care and resulting in important changes in care-delivery models, including the rapid adoption of telehealth.

Objective

To estimate patient travel, time, and cost savings associated with telehealth for cancer care delivery.

Design, setting, and participants

An economic evaluation of cost savings from completed telehealth visits from April 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021, in a single-institution National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. All patients aged 18 to 65 years who completed telehealth visits within the designated time frame

SUBMITTER: Patel KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9856804 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature