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SUBMITTER: Smith J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5063195 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smith Joel J Banks Helen H Campbell Harry H Douglas Anne A Fletcher Eilidh E McCallum Alison A Moger Tron Anders TA Peltola Mikko M Sveréus Sofia S Wild Sarah S Williams Linda J LJ Forbes John J
Health economics 20151201
We investigate parameter heterogeneity in breast cancer 1-year cumulative hospital costs across five European countries as part of the EuroHOPE project. The paper aims to explore whether conditional mean effects provide a suitable representation of the national variation in hospital costs. A cohort of patients with a primary diagnosis of invasive breast cancer (ICD-9 codes 174 and ICD-10 C50 codes) is derived using routinely collected individual breast cancer data from Finland, the metropolitan ...[more]