Determinants of the economic burden of ART on the Italian NHS: insights from the Lombardy region.

ABSTRACT: With the rising spread of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), it becomes imperative to understand the determinants of resource utilization in ART versus spontaneous pregnancies to enhance policies directed to pregnancy care. The focus of our study is to examine the costs associated with ART from the perspective of the Italian NHS and to investigate in depth the contributing social and clinical factors.Using the healthcare informative system of Lombardy, a Region of Northern Italy, we gathered individual-level information for a cohort of women who experienced either spontaneous pregnancies or pregnancies following ART from 2007 until 2020. The information covered multiple healthcare services, and we used a propensity score matching technique to match couples of ART/No ART women based on

SUBMITTER: Listorti E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11662418 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature