Counting the costs of cancer care: breast, cervical and lung cancer in Trent

Wolstenholme, Jane (2001) Counting the costs of cancer care: breast, cervical and lung cancer in Trent. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

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Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the theory, practice and application of costing with specific reference to cancer. In part it reviews the theory and guidelines related to costing methods including the recent focus on the analytical techniques used with cost data. In addition it examines how these theories and guidelines are applied in practice, by reviewing the literature on costs and cancer. The empirical research in this thesis applies costing methods to three specific cancer sites; breast, cervix and lung. This analysis provides information on the total burden of these specified cancers in terms of cost to a typical health authority (Trent). It also explores the hypothesis highlighted in previous studies that the cost of cancer increases with the stage of the disease. The final area of contribution for the thesis is in the application of recently suggested analytical techniques for cost data to the breast, cervical and lung cancer data sets; it investigates a number of proposed techniques for the analysis of skewed cost data and methods for data with incomplete patient follow up.

Item Type: Thesis (University of Nottingham only) (PhD)
Supervisors: Whynes, D.
Keywords: cancer care, costs, medical economics, breast cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer
Subjects: H Social sciences > HC Economic history and conditions
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Faculties/Schools: UK Campuses > Faculty of Social Sciences, Law and Education > School of Economics
Item ID: 12097
Depositing User: EP, Services
Date Deposited: 04 Jul 2011 13:33
Last Modified: 28 Dec 2017 01:19
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/12097

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