Medical care is becoming increasingly expensive , and this is a fact that can no longer be neglected or ignored in our country. But even as costs rise, parallelly, there is a rising demand for various healthcare services given the ageing population and the plethora of chronic diseases . At this juncture, there is a critical need both for integrated palliative care (PC) services and a need to understand the economics of PC.

Economics of PC

There is no doubt that PC intervention improves the quality of life (QoL) of patients, family and their caregivers right through the disease trajectory, with end-of-life care (EOC) and further into the bereavement period. However, it is imperative to analyse the cost-effectiveness of PC given the length of the trajectory compared to the initial ph

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