Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
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In order to analyze the economics of home care, we calculated the revenue and expenditures of both hospitalization and home care in a private hospital. The home care expenses were about 44.7% of the institutional care expenses. It became clear that home care saved medical expenses. ⋯ If we support home care of cancer patients alone, it would be an excessive burden on them, because patients are too few at present to organize and keep a team. As a private hospital, we support home care regardless of disease. However, medical economic expenses as a total turned out to be about 17% short of the necessary expenses.