1. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Home-Based Hospice-Palliative Care for Terminal Cancer Patients.
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Ye-seul Kim, Euna Han, Jae-woo Lee, and Hee-Taik Kang
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HOSPICE care , *TERMINAL care , *TERMINALLY ill , *HOME care services , *CANCER patients , *COST effectiveness , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *DATA analysis software , *PALLIATIVE treatment - Abstract
Purpose: We compared cost-effectiveness parameters between inpatient and home)based hospice-palliative care services for terminal cancer patients in Korea. Methods: A decision-analytic Markov model was used to compare the cost-effectiveness of hospice)palliative care in an inpatient unit (inpatient-start group) and at home (home-start group). The model adopted a healthcare system perspective, with a 9-week horizon and a 1-week cycle length. The transition probabilities were calculated based on the reports from the Ko)rean National Cancer Center in 2017 and Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service in 2020. Quality of life (QOL) was converted to the quality-adjusted life week (QALW). Modeling and cost-effectiveness analysis were performed with TreeAge software. The weekly medical cost was estimated to be 2,481,479 Korean won (KRW) for inpatient hos)pice-palliative care and 225,688 KRW for home-based hospice-palliative care. One-way sensitivity analysis was used to assess the impact of different scenarios and assumptions on the model results. Results: Compared with the inpatient-start group, the incremental cost of the home-start group was 697,657 KRW, and the incremental effectiveness based on QOL was 0.88 QALW. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of the home-start group was 796,476 KRW/QALW. Based on one-way sensitivity analyses, the ICER was predicted to increase to 1,626,988 KRW/QALW if the weekly cost of home-based hospice doubled, but it was estimated to decrease to -2,898,361 KRW/QALW if death rates at home doubled. Conclusion: Home-based hospice-palliative care may be more cost-effec)tive than inpatient hospice-palliative care. Home-based hospice appears to be affordable even if the associated medical expenditures double. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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