Costing the impact of interventions during pregnancy in the UK: a systematic review of economic evaluations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this review was to summarise the current evidence on the costing of resource use within UK maternity care, in order to facilitate the estimation of incremental resource and cost impacts potentially attributable to maternity care interventions.

Methods

A systematic review of economic evaluations was conducted by searching Medline, the Health Management Information Consortium, the National Health Service (NHS) Economic Evaluations Database, CINAHL and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines for economic evaluations within UK maternity care, published between January 2010 and August 2019 in the English language. Unit costs for healthcare activities provided to women within the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period were infl

SUBMITTER: Relph S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7604861 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature