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- Title
Resource utilisation and costs of palliative cancer care in an interdisciplinary health care model.
- Authors
Johnson, A. P.; Abernathy, T.; Howell, D.; Brazil, K.; Scott, S.
- Abstract
This paper presents a detailed description of health care resource utilisation and costs of a pilot interdisciplinary health care model of palliative home care in Ontario, Canada. The descriptive evaluation entailed examining the use of services and costs of the pilot program: patient demographics, length of stay broken down by disposition (discharged, alive, death), access to services/resources, use of family physician and specialist services, and drug use. There were 434 patients included in the pilot program. Total costs were approximately CAN$2.4 million, and the cost per person amounted to approximately CAN$5586.33 with average length of stay equal to over 2 months (64.22 days). One may assume that length of stay would be influenced by the amount of service and support available. Future research might investigate whether in-home palliative home care is the most cost effective and suitable care setting for those patients requiring home care services for expected periods of time.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; CANADA; PALLIATIVE treatment; MEDICAL care costs; PHYSICIANS; HOME care services
- Publication
Palliative Medicine, 2009, Vol 23, Issue 5, p448
- ISSN
0269-2163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269216309103193