Quality Management 2017

take home messages

• Rapidly increasing health care expenses are no longer sustainable. • Cost calculation in radiotherapy is feasible, accurate resource cost data however remain scarce . • Optimising efficiency is important, hypofractionation compensates for the cost of higher complexity, while safeguarding the quality. • Cost-effectiveness analyses are gaining attention in radiation therapy, but challenges remain • to define the adequate timing of the analysis • to collect the required outcome measures of survival and quality of life • Cost calculations and economic evaluations gradually become a prerequisite for financing of innovative technologies and techniques.