Download or read book Costs and Outcomes of Neonatal Intensive Care written by Joseph F. O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Costs and effectiveness of neonatal intensive care written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preterm Birth written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing prevalence of preterm birth in the United States is a complex public health problem that requires multifaceted solutions. Preterm birth is a cluster of problems with a set of overlapping factors of influence. Its causes may include individual-level behavioral and psychosocial factors, sociodemographic and neighborhood characteristics, environmental exposure, medical conditions, infertility treatments, and biological factors. Many of these factors co-occur, particularly in those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged or who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups. While advances in perinatal and neonatal care have improved survival for preterm infants, those infants who do survive have a greater risk than infants born at term for developmental disabilities, health problems, and poor growth. The birth of a preterm infant can also bring considerable emotional and economic costs to families and have implications for public-sector services, such as health insurance, educational, and other social support systems. Preterm Birth assesses the problem with respect to both its causes and outcomes. This book addresses the need for research involving clinical, basic, behavioral, and social science disciplines. By defining and addressing the health and economic consequences of premature birth, this book will be of particular interest to health care professionals, public health officials, policy makers, professional associations and clinical, basic, behavioral, and social science researchers.
Download or read book Neonatal intensive care for low birthweight infants costs and effectiveness written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Costs and Effectiveness of Neonatal Intensive Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inside Health Care Neonatal Intensive Care Who Decides Who Pays Who Can Afford It written by Oommen P. Mathew and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care in the US is facing a crisis, but there is polarization and disagreement among policy makers and the public about how to solve this crisis. The overall outcome is ranked much lower than most developed nations and nearly 50 million people are uninsured. Health care is big business and is 17 % of the gross domestic product. Inside Health Care highlights the lifesaving nature of neonatal care while shining some light on what can be done to maximize neonatal well being and efficiency in healthcare access and delivery. In this book, health care issues are brought under the lens by physicians who are involved in neonatal care which gives a the reader an authentic, yet unique perspective. The contributors also offer potential solutions to highlighted issues. Readers will be able to understand the current status of neonatal care in the US and the issues facing decision makers and the health care industry in optimizing outcomes while limiting costs.
Download or read book Covering the Costs of Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units written by Allen W. Imershein and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cost of Neonatal Intensive Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Implications of Cost effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics of Hospital Investment in Neonatal Intensive Care written by Austin Bryant Bean and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my first chapter, I estimate a dynamic model of hospital investments in neonatal intensive care in Texas. Since the early 1990s, investment in this service has been quite robust. Urban areas have multiple hospitals that offer high level facilities but generally operate below capacity. Quality in neonatal intensive care increases with the number of patients treated: higher patient volumes lead to lower mortality rates. The entry of additional neonatal intensive care units imposes a negative production externality on existing units by reducing patient volumes. I estimate a static model of patient demand to determine how patient choices respond to investment. Through the dynamic model I recover the hospitals’ costs for treating different types of patients. I estimate a model of volume-outcome effects to predict how patient flows affect aggregate mortality. I simulate counterfactual outcomes under several restricted-entry regimes and find that up to 20% of the deaths of very low birth weight infants would be prevented in Texas by restricting entry of new neonatal intensive care units. In my second chapter, I study an economy of scale in the production of quality and the consequences for consumer welfare in the context of neonatal intensive care in Texas. Using detailed birth-certificate-level data including ID of the hospital of birth covering all NICU patients over eight years, I identify the causal effect of prior patient volume on the probability of mortality for new patients. I also empirically estimate a forgetting rate, capturing the rate at which the stock of accumulated experience declines in importance to the production of lower mortality. I find a very high rate of forgetting in this setting, suggesting that entry into this market may be quite harmful. I find that moving patients from low to high volume NICU’s within each county in the state would lead to substantial savings in lives: on the order of 145 infants annually. Valuing these lives at $7,000,000 each results in a welfare improvement of $1,000,000,000. I propose some policy options for the regulator in light of my results, including direct regulation of hospital prices to minimize the welfare loss from monopoly pricing. In my third chapter, I look at the consequences of entry in NICU markets for a wide variety of outcomes using national data.
Download or read book Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials written by Henry A. Glick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is becoming increasingly important to examine the relationship between the outcomes of a clinical trial and the costs of the medical therapy under study. The results of such analysis can affect reimbursement decisions for new medical technologies, drugs, devices or diagnostics. It can aid companies seeking to make claims about the cost-effectiveness of their product, as well as allowing early consideration of the economic value of therapies which may be important to improving initial adoption decisions. It is also vital for addressing the requirements of regulatory bodies. Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials provides practical advice on how to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses in controlled trials of medical therapies. This new edition has been extensively rewritten and revised; topics discussed range from design issues such as the types of services that should be measured and price weights, to assessment of quality-adjusted life years. Illustrative materials, case histories and worked examples are included to encourage the reader to apply the methods discussed. These exercises are supported with datasets, programmes and solutions made available online.
Download or read book Neonatal Intensive Care for Low Birthweight Infants written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merenstein Gardner s Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care E Book written by Sandra Lee Gardner and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 1267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-authored by an interprofessional collaborative team of physicians and nurses, Merenstein & Gardner’s Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care, 9th Edition is the leading resource for interprofessional, collaborative care of critically ill newborns. It offers comprehensive coverage with a unique interprofessional collaborative approach and a real-world perspective that make it a practical guide for both nurses and physicians. The new ninth edition features a wealth of expanded content on delivery-room care; new evidence-based care "bundles"; palliative care in the NICU; interprofessional collaborative care of parents with depression, grief, and complicated grief; and new pain assessment tools. Updated high-quality references have also been reintegrated into the book, making it easier for clinicians to locate research evidence and standards of care with minimal effort. These additions, along with updates throughout, ensure that clinicians are equipped with the very latest clinical care guidelines and practice recommendations — all in a practical quick-reference format for easy retrieval and review. UNIQUE! Core author team of two physicians and two nurses gives this internationally recognized reference a true interprofessional collaborative approach that is unmatched by any other resource. Consistent organization within clinical chapters include Physiology/Pathophysiology, Etiology, Prevention, Data Collection (History, Signs and Symptoms, and Laboratory Data), Treatment/Intervention, Complications, and Parent Teaching sections. UNIQUE! Color-highlighted point-of-care clinical content makes high-priority clinical content quick and easy to find. UNIQUE! Parent Teaching boxes outline the relevant information to be shared with a patient’s caregivers. Critical Findings boxes outline symptoms and diagnostic findings that require immediate attention to help the provider prioritize assessment data and steps in initial care. Case studies demonstrate how to apply essential content to realistic clinical scenarios for application-based learning. NEW! Updated content throughout reflects the latest evidence-based practice, national and international guidelines, and current protocols for interprofessional collaborative practice in the NICU. NEW! Up-to-date, high-quality references are now reintegrated into the text for quick retrieval, making it easier for clinicians to locate research evidence and standards of care with minimal effort. NEW! Expanded content on delivery-room care includes the impact of staffing on quality of care, delayed cord clamping, resuscitation, and more. NEW! Coverage of the new evidence-based care "bundles" keeps clinicians up to date on new guidelines that have demonstrated improved outcomes of very preterm infants. NEW! Coverage of new pain assessment tools equips NICU providers with essential resources for maintaining patient comfort. NEW! Expanded coverage of palliative care in the NICU provides the tools needed to ensure patient comfort. NEW! Expanded coverage of interprofessional collaborative care of parents with depression, grief, and complicated grief prepares clinicians for this essential area of practice.
Download or read book Too Early Too Small written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babies who are born preterm (before 37 weeks of gestation) or small for their gestational age (SGA) are at increased risk of mortality and morbidity. This report examines the relationship between selected factors and preterm and SGA births for all provinces and territories (excluding Quebec) using 2006-2007 data from CIHI's Discharge Abstract Database. Information on the hospital costs of preterm, SGA and low birth weight newborns is also included.
Download or read book The Costs and Consequences of Neonatal Intensive Care for Extremely Immature Infants written by Lex W. Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managed Care Technology Adoption and Health Care written by Laurence Claude Baker and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managed care activity may alter the incentives associated with the acquisition and use of new medical technologies, with potentially important implications for health care costs, patient care, and outcomes. This paper discusses mechanisms by which managed care could influence the adoption of new technologies and empirically examines the relationship between HMO market share and the diffusion of neonatal intensive care, a collection of technologies for the care of high risk newborns. We find that managed care slowed the adoption of NICUs, primarily by slowing the adoption of mid-level NICUs rather than the most advanced high-level units. Slowing the adoption of mid-level units would likely have generated savings. Moreover, opposite the frequent supposition that slowing technology growth is uniformly harmful to patients, in this case reduced adoption of mid-level units could have benefitted patients, since health outcomes for seriously ill newborns are better in higher-level NICUs and reductions in the availability of mid-level units appear to increase the chance of receiving care in a high-level center.
Download or read book Birth Settings in America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.
