Open AccessCost analysis of in-patient cancer chemotherapy at a tertiary care hospital
Author(s) -
Mohammad Ashraf Wani,
Syed Tabish,
Farooq A Jan,
Nazir Ahmad Khan,
Zahoor A Wafai,
Kamal Kishore Pandita
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.119314
Subject(s) - medicine , unit cost , unit (ring theory) , health care , cancer , modalities , total cost , average cost , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , family medicine , business , social science , mathematics education , mathematics , accounting , neoclassical economics , sociology , economics , microeconomics , economic growth
Cancer remains a major health problem in all communities worldwide. Rising healthcare costs associated with treating advanced cancers present a significant economic challenge. It is a need of the hour that the health sector should devise cost-effective measures to be put in place for better affordability of treatments. To achieve this objective, information generation through indigenous hospital data on unit cost of in-patient cancer chemotherapy in medical oncology became imperative and thus hallmark of this study.