Why is end‐of‐life inpatient cost high among cancer patients? A prospective cohort study
Ishwarya Balasubramanian,
Chetna Malhotra
Abstract:BackgroundInpatient cost for cancer patients is high during the last year of life, but reasons for this are not understood. We aim to understand the type of hospital admissions and inpatient services associated with an increase in inpatient cost in last year of life.MethodsWe used survey and billing records of 439 deceased patients with a solid metastatic cancer, enrolled in a prospective cohort study. Based on cost per day of inpatient admissions, we classified admissions as low‐ or high‐intensity. We decompo… Show more
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