Project

A population-level evaluation of the quality and cost-effectiveness of end-of-life care

Code
3G012414
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Applied sociology
    • Policy and administration
    • Social psychology
    • Social stratification
    • Social theory and sociological methods
    • Sociology of life course, family and health
    • Other sociology and anthropology
Keywords
Cost-effectiveness end-of-life care Quality
 
Project description

Care often tends to focus on cure and life-prolonging treatments until the very last stages of life, even when no longer warranted or beneficial. This ‘aggressiveness’ of end-of-life care impacts the quality and costs in the last phase of life. Up to date no robust population-level evaluation of the quality and costs of end-of-life care exists outside of North America. As collecting population-level data (across settings and types of care) would be an immense and costly effort, the challenge lies in making an efficient use of administratively collected data.