Light ion facility projects in Europe: methodological aspects for the calculation of the treatment cost per protocol

Pascal Pommier, Luciano Zucca, Ingemar Näslund, Thomas Auberger, Stephanie E. Combs, Guy François, Germaine Heeren, J. Rochat and Lionel Perrier
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Pascal Pommier: GRESAC - Groupe de Recherche en Economie de la SAnté et réseaux de soins en Cancérologie - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, GATE - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENS LSH - Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
J. Rochat: IPNL - Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: In the framework of the European Network for Research in Light Ion Hadron Therapy (ENLIGHT), the health economics group develops a methodology for assessing important investment and operating costs of this innovative treatment against its expected benefits. The main task is to estimate the cost per treated patient. The cost analysis is restricted to the therapeutic phase from the hospital point of view. An original methodology for cost assessment per treatment protocol is developed based on standard costs. Costs related to direct medical activity are based on the production process analysis, whereas indirect and non direct medical costs are allocated to each protocol using relevant cost-drivers. The resulting cost model will take into account the specificities of each therapeutic protocol as well as the particularities of each of the European projects.

Keywords: Light ion; projects; Europe; methodological aspects; calculation of the treatment cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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Published in Radiotherapy & Oncology, 2004, 73 (Supplement 2), pp.183-185. ⟨10.1016/S0167-8140(04)80045-8⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(04)80045-8

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