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The study is a part of the project ”Economic evaluation of lung cancer treatments”. We examine and study the effect on medical expenses for which the price standards for medicines are reviewed each year. We constructed a cost database grounded on claim forms of one hundred thirty one patients with lung cancer through 1995 to 1998. Since costs for each case depend on the price standards for medicine in the year under review we compare for each medicine two prices based on 1995 and 1998 price standards. The price standards contain various hospital charges, prices for technical skills with regard to various kinds of examinations and tests etc.
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Yajima, K. (2000). Facts and Problems in the Lung Cancer Medical Cost Analysis Through Claims Data. In: Gaul, W., Opitz, O., Schader, M. (eds) Data Analysis. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58250-9_43
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