Economic Evaluation of a Hospital-Based Palliative Care Program.

Related Articles Economic Evaluation of a Hospital-Based Palliative Care Program. J Oncol Pract. 2017 May;13(5):e408-e420 Authors: Isenberg SR, Lu C, McQuade J, Razzak R, Weir BW, Gill N, Smith TJ, Holtgrave DR Abstract PURPOSE: Establish costs of an inpatient palliative care unit (PCU) and conduct a threshold analysis to estimate the maximum possible costs for the PCU to be considered cost effective. METHODS: We used a hospital perspective to determine costs on the basis of claims from administrative data from Johns Hopkins PCU between March 2013 and March 2014. Using existing literature, we estimated the number of quality-adjusted life years…
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