Cost-effectiveness analysis of implementing an integrated neonatal care kit to reduce neonatal infection in rural Pakistan.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of distribution of the integrated neonatal care kit (iNCK) by community health workers from the healthcare payer perspective in Rahimyar Khan, Pakistan.

Setting

Rahimyar Khan, Pakistan.

Participants

N/A.

Intervention

Cost-utility analysis using a Markov model based on cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT: NCT02130856) data and a literature review. We compared distribution of the iNCK to pregnant mothers to local standard of care and followed infants over a lifetime horizon.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The primary outcome was incremental net monetary benefit (INMB, at a cost-effectiveness threshold of US$15.50), discounted at 3%. Secondary outcomes were life years, disability-adjusted life years

SUBMITTER: Muttalib F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8728405 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature