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Economic Implications of Alternative Sites of Death and Sites of Care in Ontario Palliative Care Recipients

Introduction: This study compared societal costs of care between two settings of palliative care delivery and death (home versus hospital) in an integrated palliative care program in Toronto.

Methods: 186 terminal cancer patients participated in the study. Total societal cost of end-of-life care was compared between patients who died in the home and patients who died in the hospital. Total societal cost of end-of-life care was modeled as a function of the number of days the patients spent at home during the palliative trajectory.

Results: There was no statistically significant difference in total cost of end-of-life care between home death and hospital death patients (p>0.05). Furthermore, an additional day the patient spent at home led to a significant increase in the total cost of end-of-life care (p<0.05).

Conclusion: The results demonstrated that from a societal perspective, providing palliative care under an integrated palliative care program at home may be just as expensive (if not more expensive) as caring for them in the hospital.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OTU.1807/43354
Date11 December 2013
CreatorsYu, Mo
ContributorsCoyte, Peter C.
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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