A cost analysis of public cord blood banks belonging to the Italian Cord Blood Network.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public cord blood banking is currently managed in Italy by a network of 19 regional cord blood banks coordinated by the National Blood Centre and the National Transplant Centre. A cost analysis was carried out within the Italian network to determine the relationship between cost of cord blood collection and banking and size of the bank inventory, which ranged from 106 to 9,341 units on December 31^st, 2012.

Materials and methods

The 19 banks were invited to report costs incurred in 2012 related to cord blood unit collection, transportation, biological validation, characterisation, manipulation, cryopreservation, storage, data management, and general costs. Missing information on selected items was replaced with standardised costs represented by average d

SUBMITTER: Pupella S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5919845 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature