Table 4 Studies reporting on cost-effectiveness of palliative care interventions
Author | Cost-effectiveness | Type of intervention |
|---|---|---|
Ankuda, and Meier., 2018 | Reported benefits of palliative care consultations on patient outcomes, use of healthcare and costs. | Hospital-based palliative care consultations |
Bradley et al.,2018 | Reported some evidence of cost-effectiveness of psychosocial support on survival in women with breast cancer. No significant difference in healthcare resource use between the intervention and control groups was found. | Clinical nurse specialists |
Brereton et al., 2017 | Various home-based interventions showed benefits for patients and caregivers and reduced healthcare costs. | Home-based |
Candy et al., 2011 | Hospice care interventions reduce resource use and costs, improve pain management, and increase death outside the hospital. | Hospice care at home, nursing homes and hospice facilities |
Douglas et al., 2003 | Reported lower costs and greater benefits of CNSs compared to usual care. Evidence of cost-effectiveness of pain management strategies in advanced cancer patients. | Clinical nurse specialists |
Gomes et al., 2013 | Reported clear cost-effectiveness of home-based interventions compared to usual care in 2 studies. | Home-based |
Higginson et al., 2003 | Evidence of the cost-effectiveness of home-based teams for specific patient groups including cancer and AIDS. | Home-based |
Meads, D.M., et al.2019 | Evidence from RCTs Educational and monitoring/feedback interventions have the potential to be cost-effective in patients with advanced cancer. | Hospital-based |
Salamanca-Balen et al., 2018 | Inconclusive evidence suggesting cost-effectiveness of CNS interventions including improvement in health economic outcomes, mainly in cardiac patients (heart failure) in Austria, UK and Netherlands. | Clinical nurse specialists |
Smith et al., 2014 | Reported one cost-effectiveness that showed short-term palliative care in multiple sclerosis patients showed d potential cost-effectiveness when caregiver burden was used as the main outcome measure. | Short-term palliative care |