ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2021
Cost of clinician-driven tests and treatments in very low birth weight and/or very preterm infants.
Article in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Prevention of Preterm Birth by Cervical Pessary Combined with Vaginal Progesterone: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis with Trial Sequential Analysis.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2023Pooled it
- Characterizing Hospitalization Cost for Term Newborns in Intensive Care: A Multi-Center Analysis Across U.S. Children's Hospitals.Research square · 2026Article
- Trends in admissions and costs for neonatal intensive care in US children's hospitals, 2017-2022.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
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- Managing established bronchopulmonary dysplasia without using routine blood gas measurements.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2024Article
- Association of the respiratory severity score with bronchopulmonary dysplasia-associated pulmonary hypertension in infants born extremely preterm.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2024Article
- Non-invasive continuous cardiac output monitoring in infants with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2022Observational
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Abstract
objectiveTo rank clinician-driven tests and treatments (CTTs) by their total cost during the birth hospitalization for preterm infants. STUDY
designRetrospective cohort of very low birth weight (<1500 g) and/or very preterm (<32 weeks) subjects admitted to US children's hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Units (2012-2018). CTTs were defined as pharmaceutical, laboratory and imaging services and ranked by total cost.
results24,099 infants from 51 hospitals were included. Parenteral nutrition ($85M, 32% of pharmacy costs), blood gas analysis ($34M, 29% of laboratory costs), and chest radiographs ($18M, 31% of imaging costs) were the costliest CTTs overall. More than half of CTT-related costs occurred during 10% of hospital days.
conclusionsThe majority of CTT-related costs were from commonly used tests and treatments. Targeted efforts to improve value in neonatal care may benefit most from focusing on reducing unnecessary utilization of common tests and treatments, rather than infrequently used ones.
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