Costs and benefits of neonatal intensive care

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A cohort of very low birthweight infants (<1500 g) born in 1979-81 from a geographically defined area was followed up, and a costing of the initial admission to the neonatalintensive care unit was made. A four point scale for the severity of disability was used and estimation of the costs of education and full time residential care was made and discounted at 5% over the appropriate period. During the three years a progressively increasing proportion of infants survived, and this was associated with an increasing proportion of disabilities among the survivors. If costs are related to outcome up to the age of 4 they get progressively less over the three year study period. After the age of 4 the costs of special education and residential care dominate, and the cost trend is reversed.

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Pharoah, P. O. D., Stevenson, R. C., Cooke, R. W. I., & Sandu, B. (1988). Costs and benefits of neonatal intensive care. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 63(7 SPEC NO.), 715–718. https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.63.7_Spec_No.715

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