Estimated costs of advanced lung cancer care in a public reference hospital

• Main Authors: Renata Erthal Knust (Author), Margareth Crisóstomo Portela (Author), Claudia Cristina de Aguiar Pereira (Author), Guilherme Bastos Fortes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate the direct medical costs of advanced non-small cell lung cancer care. METHODS We assessed a cohort of 277 patients treated in the Brazilian National Cancer Institute in 2011. The costs were estimated from the perspective of the hospital as a service provider of referen...