Factors affecting hospital costs in lung cancer patients in the United Kingdom

Lung Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue , 2016, Pages 8-14

  Kennedy, Martyn P T ^a   Hall, Peter S ^b   Callister, Matthew E J ^a  

^a LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Costs; Health economics; Informatics; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOID; COHORT ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; GENE MUTATION; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SECONDARY CARE; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84963776023     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: 18728332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2016.04.009     Document Type: Article

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