Hisashige A, Katayama T, Mikasa H
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tokushima, School of Medicine, Japan.
Support Care Cancer. 1998 Nov;6(6):503-10. doi: 10.1007/s005200050205.
Concern about the economic aspect of cancer care is increasing. However, economic evaluations for cancer care are deficient in a number of areas, despite recent important contributions. To generate better evidence for economic evaluation of care for patients with cancer and intractable disease, the recent trends and problems with economic evaluations in these areas in Japan are examined. Several examples of economic evaluations, such as those concerned with bone marrow transplantation for leukemias, breast-conserving treatment for early breast cancer, and antiemetic treatment for patients receiving cancer chemotherapy, showed substantial possibilities for evaluating value for money in health care with a view to establishing an effective and efficient health care system.
对癌症治疗经济方面的关注日益增加。然而，尽管最近有重要贡献，但癌症治疗的经济评估在许多领域仍存在不足。为了为癌症和疑难疾病患者的治疗经济评估提供更好的证据，本文研究了日本这些领域经济评估的最新趋势和问题。一些经济评估的例子，如白血病骨髓移植、早期乳腺癌保乳治疗以及癌症化疗患者的止吐治疗，显示出在评估医疗保健性价比以建立有效且高效的医疗保健系统方面具有巨大潜力。
