This issue of Palliative Medicine contains a range of articles exploring various aspects of the economics of providing and funding palliative and end of life care. Among the topics covered are:
- The use of Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QUALYs) in cost-effectiveness analyses in palliative care
- The contributions of family caregivers at end of life: a national post-bereavement census survey of cancer carers' hours of care and expenditures
- Costs of formal and informal care in the last year of life for patients in receipt of specialist palliative care
Fulltext available in Palliative Medicine
Available in print in the Arthur Rank Hospice Library, Cambridge