ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

S2843

Interdisciplinary - Health economics & health services research

ESTRO 2024

Creating a categorisation system for radiotherapy in a value-based context: a mixed-method study

Miet Vandemaele 1,2 , Marianne Aznar 3 , Pierre Blanchard 4 , Josep M Borras 5 , Michelle Leech 6 , Ajay Aggarwal 7,8 , Yolande Lievens 1,2 1 Ghent University hospital, Radiation Oncology, Ghent, Belgium. 2 Ghent University, Human structure and repair, Ghent, Belgium. 3 University of Manchester, Division of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, United Kingdom. 4 Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave-Roussy, Department of Radiation Oncology, Villejuif, France. 5 University of Barcelona and Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Department of Clinical Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. 6 Trinity St. James’s Cancer Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Applied Radiation Therapy Trinity, Discipline of Radiation Therapy, School of Medicine, Dublin, Ireland. 7 King's College London, Institute of Cancer Policy, London, United Kingdom. 8 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London, United Kingdom

Purpose/Objective:

The Health Economics in Radiation Oncology program of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO-HERO) aims to enhance access to potentially beneficial innovations for patients by using the concept of value (appraising outcomes that matter most to the patients over the cost of the total cycle of care) specifically for radiotherapy. This abstract reports on a mixed-method to develop a categorisation system for radiotherapy in a value-based healthcare (VBHC) context.

Material/Methods:

Study design An mixed-method design in six phases, based on a health services research framework by Jabareen et al. (1), is illustrated in Fig. 1.