Health Services

Reports outline health services study findings from University of Oslo, Department of Economics

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 31st, 2010

A new study, 'Health status after cancer: does it matter which hospital you belong to,' is now available. "Survival rates are widely used to compare the quality of cancer care. However, the extent to which cancer survivors regain full physical or cognitive functioning is not captured by this statistic," investigators in Oslo, Norway report.

"To address this concern we introduce post-diagnosis employment as a supplemental measure of the quality of cancer care. This study is based on individual level data from the Norwegian Cancer Registry (n=46,720) linked with data on labor market outcomes and socioeconomic status from Statistics Norway. We study variation across...

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