Care at the End of Life: An Economic Perspective

Care at the End of Life: An Economic Perspective

EditorJeff Round
Copyright HolderSpringer International Publishing
Contributing WriterLouise Jones, Bridget M. Johnston, Rachael Maree Hunter, Martin Bardsley, Terry N. Flynn, Charlie Corke, Elisabeth Huynh, Gianluca Baio, Baptiste Leurent, Joanna Coast, Cara Bailey, Alastair Canaway, Philip Kinghorn, Christopher J. Sampson, Christopher McCabe, Mike Paulden, James O’Mahony, Richard Edlin, Anthony Culyer, Rohan Deogaonkar, Rachel Baker, Helen Mason, Neil McHugh, Marissa Collins, Koonal Shah, Claire Hulme, Fiona Carmichael, David Meads, Katherine Stevens, Jeff Round, Henry Llewellyn
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
LocationSwitzerland
Pages / Font205 pages
ISBN978-3-319-28266-4
DOI (Digital Object Code)10.1007/978-3-319-28267-1
Library of Congress Classification Number2016933266
ChaptersPart I Introduction 1. Care of People When They Face Death and Dying: Definitions, International Context and the Development of Research Part II Methodological Challenges in Researching Patients at the End of Life 2. The Application of Economic Evaluation Techniques to Studies of Palliative and End-of-Life Care 3. The Role of the Health Economist in the Evaluation and Development of Complex Interventions in End-of-Life Care 4. Retrospective Analyses of End-of-Life Care Using Large Data Sets 5. Preference Elicitation at the End of Life 6. An Introduction to Handling Missing Data in Health Economic Evaluations Part III Measuring and Valuing Outcomes 7. Measuring and Valuing Outcomes for Care at the End of Life: The Capability Approach 8. Identifying Objects of Value at the End of Life 9. Life at a Premium: Considering an End-of-Life Premium in Value-Based Reimbursement 10. Eliciting Societal Views on the Value of Life-Extending Treatments Using Q Methodology Part IV End of Life Care and Society 11. Does Society Place Special Value on End of Life Treatments? 12. What About Informal Carers and Families? 13. Measuring and Valuing Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Terminal and Life-Limiting Illness 14. Living Up to a Good Death: Complexities and Constraints in End of Life Choices
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