Prenatal nutrition services: A cost analysis
| Autor: | Splett Pl, Caldwell Hm, Holey Es, Alton Ir |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
| Předmět: |
Nutrition and Dietetics
Prenatal nutrition business.industry Service delivery framework Total cost media_common.quotation_subject Audit Prenatal care Scarcity Medicine Operations management business Quality assurance health care economics and organizations Food Science media_common Health department |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 87:204-208 |
| ISSN: | 0002-8223 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0002-8223(21)03092-3 |
| Popis: | The scarcity of information about program costs in relation to quality care prompted a cost analysis of prenatal nutrition services in two urban settings. This study examined prenatal nutrition services in terms of total costs, per client costs, per visit costs, and cost per successful outcome. Standard cost-accounting principles were used. Outcome measures, based on written quality assurance criteria, were audited using standard procedures. In the studied programs, nutrition services were delivered for a per client cost of $72 in a health department setting and $121 in a hospital-based prenatal care program. Further analysis illustrates that total and per client costs can be misleading and that costs related to successful outcomes are much higher. The three levels of cost analysis reported provide baseline data for quantifying the costs of providing prenatal nutrition services to healthy pregnant women. Cost information from these cost analysis procedures can be used to guide adjustments in service delivery to assure successful outcomes of nutrition care. Accurate cost and outcome data are necessary prerequisites to cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit studies. |
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