A Drug Cost Estimation Model and its Determinant Factors for Breast Cancer Patient Hospitalized in Indonesia

The study offers the drug cost of breast cancer in Indonesia. their associated factors and the magnitude of the factors. The design of research was a cross sectional descriptive analysis using health facilities costing study that was conducted in Indonesia in 2011. The drug cost model was formulated as a cost of illness employing the prevalence based approach from a provider’s perspective.Based on the fitted model, the variables include patient characteristics (age, length of stay, ICU facility usage), hospital characteristics (drug supply problem), hospital location (Java and non-Java). The formula is as follows : Ln drug cost = 13,41 (0,31 X % patient age 40-