TY - JOUR
T1 - Resource utilisation and costs of palliative cancer care in an interdisciplinary health care model
AU - Johnson, A.P.
AU - Abernathy, T.
AU - Howell, D.
AU - Brazil, K.
AU - Scott, S.
N1 - MEDLINE® is the source for the MeSH terms of this document.
PY - 2009/1/1
Y1 - 2009/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1177/0269216309103193
DO - 10.1177/0269216309103193
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67649359892
SN - 0269-2163
VL - 23
SP - 448
EP - 459
JO - Palliative Medicine
JF - Palliative Medicine
IS - 5
ER -
