Annual report 2017

HEALTH ECONOMICS IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY (HERO)

Conclusion of work package 3: HERO cost-accounting model

The HERO project has successfully developed a model to estimate the national cost of radiotherapy, bringing this work package to a close. This is an important milestone for our community in terms of developing a solid knowledge base on the costs of radiotherapy and encouraging more economic evaluations of radiotherapy. The HERO cost-accounting programme for radiotherapy is designed to calculate the cost of radiotherapy at the national level, using the time-driven activity-based costingmethodology.The model uses national data on staffing, equipment and radiotherapy treatment, that are input by national societies (the end user) to provides results on overall cost, cost breakdown for each type of human and equipment resource, and refined cost per treatment. The model is able to specify the costs for different tumour types, techniques, fractionation schedules and other complexities.

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