hospital variationobstetricsvalueObjective:To examine hospital variation in cost of childbirth hospitalisations and identify factors that contribute to the variation. Design:Cross-sectional analysis of linked birth certificate and hospital discharge data. Setting:Two hundred and twenty hospitals in California ...
Having a baby is an expensive endeavor — but the cost of giving birth in the U.S. varies wildly. The cost of hospital childbirth is more than three times more expensive in New Jersey than it is in Nebraska, for example. CBS News looked at the cost of vaginal birth, with no complicat...
Increasingly nursing will need to prove the cost effectiveness of alternative models of care. A cost-effectiveness analysis, using a decision analysis format, compared a birthing center to a hospital for low-risk deliveries. Results indicate that a birth center is a cost-effective model of nursing...
The exact cost of childbirth is hard to quantify because expenses vary widely based primarily on whether or not you're insured, as well as what state you live in, how long you stay in the hospital, and the type of birth you have.C-sectionsare notoriously more expensive thanvaginal births...
There was no difference between the score on the OI for women who planned to give birth in a birth centre and that of women who planned to give birth in a hospital. Women who planned to give birth at home had better outcomes on the OI (higher score on the OI). We found no ...
In New South Wales (NSW), Australia there are three settings available for women at low risk of complications to give birth: home, birth centre and hospital. Between 2000 and 2012, 93.6% of babies were planned to be born in hospital, 6.0% in a birth centre and 0.4% at home. Availabili...
PS Romano,NJ Waitzman,RM Scheffler,... - 《American Journal of Public Health》 被引量: 181发表: 1995年 Characteristics of Current Hospital-Sponsored and Nonhospital Birth Centers 1997;1(2):89-99. 3. Waitzman NJ, Romano PS, Scheffler RM. Estimates of the economic costs of birth defects. ...
Many soon-to-be parents around the country opt for ahospital birth. This is a good choice since you will have ready help in case something goes wrong. Others prefer to have their babies in the comfort of their home or at a birth center. While birth centers are health care facilities for...
All women received some portion of prenatal care in the birth center and received midwifery care in labor. Some women had the option of giving birth in the hospital or the birth center and chose to labor in the hospital. Analysis was intent to treat according to site of admission in ...
Electronic health records for 1,441 medically low-risk women who gave birth at a hospital located in the U.S. Pacific Northwest between January and September 2013 were sampled. Multilevel regression and generalized linear models were used for analysis. Reduced use of selected labor and birth ...