COST OF NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE FOR VERY-LOW-BIRTHWEIGHT INFANTS

COST OF NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE FOR VERY-LOW-BIRTHWEIGHT INFANTS

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, £138, and £71 for intensive, special, and nursery care, respectively. Regression of ungrouped patient-specific costs against birthwei...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet (British edition) 1986-03, Vol.327 (8481), p.600-603
Hauptverfasser: Sandhu, B., Cooke, R.W.I., Stevenson, R.C., Pharoah, P.O.D.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Biological and medical sciences
Birth weight
Infants
Intensive care
Medical sciences
Neonates
Newborn babies
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
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Zusammenfassung: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, £138, and £71 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 (
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(86)92820-5