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ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Examining the Relationship between Cost and Quality of Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Beyond.

Lauren Culbertson, Dmitry Dukhovny, Wannasiri Lapcharoensap

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Review in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Quality, outcome, and cost of care provided to very low birth weight infants in California.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2024
    Article
  3. Do small baby units improve extremely premature infant outcomes?Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2022
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lauren CulbertsonDepartment of Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5283-9698
Dmitry DukhovnyDepartment of Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Wannasiri LapcharoensapDepartment of Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1514-3314

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is tremendous variation in costs of delivering health care, whether by country, hospital, or patient. However, the questions remain: what costs are reasonable? How does spending affect patient outcomes? We look to explore the relationship between cost and quality of care in adult, pediatric and neonatal literature. Health care stewardship initiatives attempt to address the issue of lowering costs while maintaining the same quality of care; but how do we define and deliver high value care to our patients? Ultimately, these questions remain challenging to tackle due to the heterogeneous definitions of cost and quality. Further standardization of these terms, as well as studying the variations of both costs and quality, may benefit future research on value in health care.

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health care costsneonatal intensive carequalityvalue

Identifiers

PMID33227966
PMCPMC7699206

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