None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
More than one in ten infants are born preterm, with increased risk of disability. To guide public policy reliably, cost-effectiveness analyses of interventions to prevent disability require a long-term societal perspective, including costs of hospital treatment, special education, family or community care, and lost parent and child productivity. Methods: We evaluated (i) the proportion of cost effectiveness analyses with a long-term societal perspective and (ii) whether analyses with a long-term societal perspective were more frequent within randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Original, peer-reviewed research articles in English from 1 January 2002 through 31 December, 2012 were eligible for inclusion in the review if they described cost-effectiveness analyses of interventions before or after preterm birth and reported disability. Searches by two reviewers in The Cochrane Library, EconLit, EMBASE and MEDLINE databases yielded 220 articles. Reference lists from those articles yielded another 5 articles. Of these 225 articles 25 described cost-effectiveness analyses that met the inclusion criteria.
Interventions
Any antenatal, intrapartum or postnatal intervention in pregnancy before 37 weeks gestation or in infants of less than 37 weeks gestation with disability as an outcome.
Sponsors
WINNER Centre for Newborn Research, NHMRC CTC University of Sydney
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 to 1 Months
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Any type of clinical study including RCTs, observational studies or a search of the published literature, which included both the costs and consequences of an intervention and its comparator. Studies must include interventions in pregnant women or newborn babies before 28 days after birth. Studies are eligible if published between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2012
Exclusion criteria
Stillbirths
Outcome results
None listed