Impact of initial pattern of care on hospital costs in a cohort of incident lung cancer cases

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 269-275

  Pagano, Eva ^a   Gregori, Dario ^b   Filippini, Claudia ^a   Di Cuonzo, Daniela ^a   Ruffini, Enrico ^a   Zanetti, Roberto ^c   Rosso, Stefano ^c   Bertetto, Oscar ^d   Merletti, Franco ^a   Ciccone, Giovannino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c CPO Piemonte   (Italy)

^d AReSS Agenzia Regionale per i Servizi Sanitari   (Italy)

Author keywords

administrative data; cost determinants; cost of illness; hospital costs; lung cancer; patterns of care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; DATA BASE; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ITALY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGISTRIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84858127854     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01564.x     Document Type: Article

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