Effects of clinical and socioeconomic factors on Medicare and patient costs for colorectal cancer in Australia: a retrospective multivariate regression analysis
Ou Yang, Yuting Zhang, Yat Hang To, Maarten M J IJzerman, Judith Liu, Peter Gibbs, Karen Trapani, Sallie-Anne Pearson, Fanny Franchini, The PRIMCAT Group · 2024
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Description
Ou Yang and co-authors tally what bowel cancer costs patients and the public purse in Australia. Their 2024 study links a state cancer registry to ten years of public drug and care payment records. All cases found in Victoria from 2010 to 2019 are in the set. Traits weighed run from cancer stage and spread to age, sex, birth land, and local wealth level.
Costs climb steeply as stage grows, with drug costs driving much of the rise. Patients pay a few hundred dollars a year from their own pockets at the mean. Sex, age, and wealth level each shape the bill. The work fills a thin local record on cancer costs and gives planners a base for fairer funding choices.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ou Yang, Yuting Zhang, Yat Hang To, Maarten M J IJzerman, Judith Liu, Peter Gibbs, Karen Trapani, Sallie-Anne Pearson, Fanny Franchini, The PRIMCAT Group |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |