Breast Cancer: Treatment, Outcomes, and Cost-Effectiveness
Abstract
Little is known about the relationships between breast cancer treatments, costs, and outcomes across different population groups, health care delivery settings, and geographic areas. As a result of this uncertainty the cost effectiveness of different patterns of breast cancer prevention and treatment across such groups, appropriate policies for breast cancer are unclear. This research will develop evidence on these issues using a combination of very large, unique databases that integrate longitudinal information on individual treatments, costs, and outcomes and that have been linked to supplementary datasets with far more clinical detail. We will characterize variations and trends across different demographic and socioeconomic groups in all phases of breast cancer screening and treatment. We will investigate variations and trends for different measures of inpatient and outpatient costs, and different measures of patient outcomes. The resulting empirical cost-effectiveness estimates of alternative approaches to breast cancer treatment can be used to evaluate technologies used for breast cancer treatment and to guide policies affecting breast cancer management.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA332430
Entities
People
- Mark B. Mcclellan
Organizations
- National Bureau of Economic Research