Objective
- The establishment, by coordinated research, of a database containing local data on costs of cancer treatments and unit costs of resources used in cancer treatments
- The organisation of workshops and training sessions for young clinicians and researchers participating in cost-effectiveness research and in the collection of the necessary cost data.
- The performance of economic evaluations based on outcomes of clinical trials, models and meta-analyses, supplemented with the cost data collected under point 1. These economic evaluations will be carried out by the clinicians trained in the sessions mentioned under point 2, with support by a team of health economists.
Whether an economic evaluation is based on a clinical trial in which resource utilisation is documented, or on a model, or on the results of a meta-analysis, in each case detailed information on the unit costs of the resources used during the treatment process (e.g. surgical procedures, hospital days, radiotherapy sessions, chemotherapy administrations) as well as on long term treatment costs is necessary.
The three objectives of this project, as mentioned above, are closely interrelated. Routine good quality economic evaluations can only be carried out by teams of trained clinicians, with the assistance of economists, and on the basis of reliable cost data, collected by cost searchers who, on their turn, participate in the training. As a European tradition towards research exists in the cancer field and the economic challenges in this field are huge - given the rapid introduction of new treatments and the speed with which data on efficacy and effectiveness become available, e.g. from the growing number of meta-analyses -, cancer clinical research is a suitable vehicle for economic evaluations focusing as it does on relevant final outcomes such as quality of life and life expectancy. Moreover, the cancer field might fulfil an obvious pilot function for the development of strategies to assess long term costs and effectiveness of treatments in other medical fields in order to assist decisionmakers at all levels with the efficient allocation of their budgets.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine surgery surgical procedures
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
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Coordinator
1200 BRUSSELS
Belgium
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