Rees discusses theneed to consider the cost effectiveness of these resources. He presents ananalysis of the costs of various diagnostic, treatment, and related caremodalities in relation to the quality of life achieved, showing thatpalliative care is considerably more expensive than curative treatment....
Palliative care has been shown to reduce healthcare costs at the end-of-life; however, NHs are not equipped to offer this. Project CARE was introduced in 7 NHs by a hospital unit to provide palliative care for NH residents. Our objective is to evaluate the cost impact of Project CARE on...
Patients living with life-limiting illnesses other than cancer constitute the majority of patients in need of palliative care globally, yet most previous systematic reviews of the cost impact of palliative care have not exclusively focused on this popula
The findings of this study contribute to the baseline data against which the cost of new therapies may be compared as they come into clinical practice. Methods This observational study was conducted in a single National Health Service (NHS), that is, publicly funded, specialist palliative care un...
LetBbe the disutility of palliative care (cervical cancer mortality), which is the same for all countries and stages. Let\({\theta }_{a,s}^{\,i,c}\)be the probability of being diagnosed with FIGO stagescervical cancer at ageain countrycfor scenarioi. ...
Cancer is a leading cause of death. This paper examines the utilisation of unscheduled emergency end-of-life healthcare and estimates expenditure in this d
In the UK, following hospital admission with acute illness or injury, approximately one third of older people with frailty are provided with a period of rehabilitation [7]. This National Health Service (NHS) rehabilitation is often provided via ‘intermediate care’ (IC), which is a range of ...
23,24 This mortality rate was then applied to all the health states in order to calculate the total number of women in the model who died annually. Unit Costs Unit costs in Euros at 2017/2018 prices (Table 3) were assigned to the estimates of healthcare resource use in ...
Our study comprised of a review of the existing literature on palliative and end of life care and the development of a Markov model using health expenditures and utilisation data. We used the model to estimate current costs to the NHS of end of life care for cancer and organ failure 'heart...
Palliative careDirect costIndirect costIntangible costMethodologiesCharacteristicsImprovements in the treatment of advanced cancer have increased life expectancy but have also increased the costs to healthcare systems, patients and their families. A systematic review is needed to summarize research work on ...