Journal article
Effects of clinical and socioeconomic factors on Medicare and patient costs for colorectal cancer in Australia: a retrospective multivariate regression analysis
O Yang, Y Zhang, YH To, MMJ IJzerman, J Liu, P Gibbs, K Trapani, SA Pearson, F Franchini
BMJ Open | Published : 2024
Abstract
Objective We study how clinical and socioeconomic factors influence colorectal cancer (CRC) costs for patients and Medicare in Australia. The study seeks to extend the limited Australian literature on CRC costs by analysing comprehensive patient-level medical services and pharmaceutical cost data. Design, setting and participants Using the Victorian Cancer Registry, we identified all patients in Victoria who were diagnosed with CRC from 2010 to 2019 and extracted their linked 2010-2021 Medicare data. This data includes expenses from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and Medicare Benefits Schedule services. We examined variables such as disease stage, CRC type, molecular profile, metastasis ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We acknowledge The University of Melbourne as the primary institution and sponsor leading the PRIMCAT research program. We acknowledge the foundational work of the PRIMCAT research team (Dr Koen Degeling, Professor Ben Solomon, Professor Grant McArthur, Professor Stephen Fox, Professor Jayesh Desai, Professor Adam Elshaug, Professor David Roder, Dr Marliese Alexander, Professor Sean Grimmond, Sophy Athan) and consumer panel members (David Attwood, Paul Baden, Wendy Benson, Catherine Bressanutti, George Jiang and Carolyn Rowan) in supporting this research (primcat.org). We acknowledge the role of the Centre for Victorian Data Linkage (CVDL) in providing our linked data set and the State of Victoria as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services as the owner of the Victorian Data analysed in this study. We acknowledge the assistance of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) in providing our linked data set and the Commonwealth of Australia as represented by the Department of Health as the owner of the Commonwealth Data analysed in this study.