A Critical Review of Cost Reduction in Neonatal Intensive Care II. Strategies for Reduction
Open Access
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Perinatology
- Vol. 21 (2), 121-127
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jp.7200501
Abstract
Neonatal intensive care is extremely expensive; there is both a financial and an ethical obligation to practice efficiently. In the current era of intense cost containment in hospital care, neonatologists and hospital administrators are under pressure to find strategies for cost reduction for neonatal services. In this review, we address reducing discretionary admissions, the high costs of low-cost testing, minimizing use of selected high-cost technologies (ventilators and parenteral nutrition), shortening length of stay, and optimizing nursing allocation.Keywords
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