Division of General Surgery, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075, Bayview Avenue, T2-063, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada.
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Gastric Cancer. 2020 May;23(3):373-381. doi: 10.1007/s10120-019-01031-w. Epub 2019 Dec 13.
BACKGROUND: Esophagogastric cancer (EGC) is one of the deadliest and costliest malignancies to treat. Care by high-volume providers can provide better outcomes for patients with EGC. Cost implications of volume-based cancer care are unclear. We examined the cost-effectiveness of care by high-volume medical oncology providers for non-curative management of EGC. METHODS: We conducted a population-based cohort study of non-curative EGC over 2005-2017 by linking administrative datasets. High-volume was defined as ≥ 11 patients/provider/year. Healthcare costs ($USD/patient/month-survived) were computed from diagnosis to death or end of follow-up from the perspective of the healthcare system. Multivariable quantile regression examined the association between care by high-volume providers and costs. Sensitivity analyses were conducted by varying costing horizons and high-volume definitions. RESULTS: Among 7011 non-curative EGC patients, median overall survival was superior with care by high-volume providers with 7.0 (IQR 3.3-13.3) compared to 5.9 (IQR 2.6-12.1) months (p < 0.001) for low-volume providers. Median costs/patient/month-lived were lower for high-volume providers ($5518 vs. $5911; p < 0.001), owing to lower inpatient acute care costs, despite higher medication-associated and radiotherapy costs. Care by high-volume providers was independently associated with a reduction of $599 per patient/month-lived (95% confidence interval - 966 to - 331) compared to low-volume providers. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was - 393. Care by high-volume providers remained the dominant strategy when varying the costing horizon and the high-volume definition. CONCLUSION: Care by high-volume providers for non-curative EGC is associated with superior survival and lower healthcare costs, indicating a dominant strategy that may provide an opportunity to improve cost-effectiveness of care delivery.
背景:食管胃交界部癌(EGC)是治疗费用最高、致死率最高的恶性肿瘤之一。高容量医疗提供者的治疗可以为 EGC 患者提供更好的结果。基于肿瘤量的癌症护理的成本影响尚不清楚。我们研究了高容量肿瘤内科医生对 EGC 非治愈性管理的成本效益。
方法:我们通过链接行政数据集,对 2005 年至 2017 年间非治愈性 EGC 进行了基于人群的队列研究。高容量定义为≥11 名患者/提供者/年。从医疗保健系统的角度计算了从诊断到死亡或随访结束时的医疗保健成本(每患者/月生存美元)。多变量分位数回归分析了高容量提供者护理与成本之间的关系。通过改变成本计算时间范围和高容量定义进行了敏感性分析。
结果:在 7011 名非治愈性 EGC 患者中,高容量提供者的总体生存率中位数明显优于低容量提供者,分别为 7.0(IQR 3.3-13.3)和 5.9(IQR 2.6-12.1)个月(p<0.001)。高容量提供者的每患者/月生存成本较低($5518 与$5911;p<0.001),这是由于住院急性护理成本较低,尽管药物相关和放射治疗成本较高。与低容量提供者相比,高容量提供者的护理独立降低了每个患者/月生存成本$599(95%置信区间-966 至-331)。增量成本效益比为-393。在改变成本计算时间范围和高容量定义时,高容量提供者的护理仍然是主导策略。
结论:高容量提供者对非治愈性 EGC 的治疗与生存改善和医疗成本降低相关,表明这是一种主导策略,可能为改善医疗服务的成本效益提供机会。
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