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Resource utilisation and costs of palliative cancer care in an interdisciplinary health care model.
Johnson, A P; Abernathy, T; Howell, D; Brazil, K; Scott, S.
Afiliação
  • Johnson AP; Canada Research Chair in Health Policy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. ana.johnson@queensu.ca
Palliat Med ; 23(5): 448-59, 2009 Jul.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19351794
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.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Cuidados Paliativos / Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente / Recursos em Saúde / Serviços de Assistência Domiciliar / Tempo de Internação / Neoplasias Tipo de estudo: Evaluation_studies / Health_economic_evaluation Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Aged80 / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País/Região como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2009 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Cuidados Paliativos / Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente / Recursos em Saúde / Serviços de Assistência Domiciliar / Tempo de Internação / Neoplasias Tipo de estudo: Evaluation_studies / Health_economic_evaluation Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Aged80 / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País/Região como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2009 Tipo de documento: Article