Devices and furniture for small and sick newborn care: systematic development of a planning and costing tool.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High-quality neonatal care requires sufficient functional medical devices, furniture, fixtures, and use by trained healthcare workers, however there is lack of publicly available tools for quantification and costing. This paper describes development and use of a planning and costing tool regarding furniture, fixtures and devices to support scale-up of WHO level-2 neonatal care, for national and global newborn survival targets.

Methods

We followed a systematic process. First, we reviewed planning and costing tools of relevance. Second, we co-designed a new tool to estimate furniture and device set-up costs for a default 40-bed level-2 neonatal unit, incorporating input from multi-disciplinary experts and newborn care guidelines. Furniture and device lists were base

SUBMITTER: Tarus A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10652422 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature