Development of a method to determine the cost of breast cancer treatment with chemotherapy at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

dc.contributor.authorGuzha, N. T.
dc.contributor.authorThebe, Tselane
dc.contributor.authorButler, Nadine
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-18T13:03:29Z
dc.date.available2021-01-18T13:03:29Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThere has been no comprehensive study determining the financial burden of breast cancer in the South African (SA) public sector. Objectives. To develop a method to determine the cost of breast cancer treatment with chemotherapy per episode of care and to quantify the associated costs relating to chemotherapy at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH), a government hospital in SA. These costs included costs associated with the management of adverse events arising from chemotherapy. Methods. Retrospective patient-level data were collected for 200 patients from electronic databases and patient folders between 2013 and 2015. Direct medical costs were determined from the health funder's perspective. The information collected was categorised into the following cost components: chemotherapy medicines, support medicines, administration of chemotherapy, laboratory tests, radiology scans and imaging, doctor consultations and adverse events. Time-And-motion studies were conducted on a set of new patients and the data obtained were used for the study sample of 200 patients. All the above costs were used to determine the cost of chemotherapy per episode of care. The episode of care was defined as the care provided from 2 months prior to the date of commencing chemotherapy (pre-chemotherapy phase), during chemotherapy (treatment phase) and until 6 months after the date when the last cycle of chemotherapy was administered (follow-up phase).en_US
dc.identifier.citationGuzha, N. T. et al. (2020). Development of a method to determine the cost of breast cancer treatment with chemotherapy at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 110(4), 296-301en_US
dc.identifier.issn2078-5135
dc.identifier.uri10.7196/SAMJ.2020.V110I4.14204
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/5670
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAMAen_US
dc.subjectCostingen_US
dc.subjectBreast canceren_US
dc.subjectChemotherapyen_US
dc.subjectMethodsen_US
dc.subjectPublic sectoren_US
dc.titleDevelopment of a method to determine the cost of breast cancer treatment with chemotherapy at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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