COST OF NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE FOR VERY-LOW-BIRTHWEIGHT INFANTS
| Autor: | B. Sandhu, R.W.I. Cooke, R. C. Stevenson, P. O. D. Pharoah |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
| Předmět: |
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Neonatal intensive care unit Birth weight Infant Premature Diseases law.invention law Intensive Care Units Neonatal Intensive care Infant Mortality medicine Humans Activity-based costing health care economics and organizations Average cost business.industry Public health Infant Newborn General Medicine Infant Low Birth Weight Intensive care unit Infant mortality England Costs and Cost Analysis Regression Analysis business Demography |
| Zdroj: | The Lancet. 327:600-603 |
| ISSN: | 0140-6736 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0140-6736(86)92820-5 |
| Popis: | A detailed costing of the Mersey regional neonatal intensive care unit was made for 1983 (at 1984 prices) for three levels of care; costs per inpatient day were 297 pounds, 138 pounds, and 71 pounds for intensive, special, and nursery care, respectively. Regression of ungrouped patient-specific costs against birthweight showed the explanatory power of birthweight to be negligible. The average cost per very-low-birthweight (less than 1500 g) infant was 4490 pounds for a survivor and 3446 pounds for a non-survivor. A similar study elsewhere showed an almost six-fold difference in cost between survivors and non-survivors. It is postulated that medical management policy largely determines this difference and is crucial to any investigation of cost-efficiency. |
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