Cost-effectiveness of improving pediatric hospital care in Nicaragua Costo-eficacia de la mejora de la atención hospitalaria pediátrica en Nicaragua

• Main Authors: Edward I Broughton, Ivonne Gomez, Oscar Nuñez, Yudy Wong
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2011
• Subjects: Costos de hospital; hospitales pediátricos; nálisis costo-beneficio; diarrea; neumonía; prestación de atención de salud; Nicaragua; Hospital costs; hospitals; pediatric; cost-benefit analysis; diarrhea; pneumonia; delivery of health care; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Daly
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/ed0392016de64aab8aff8f254e22bbd6

OBJECTIVE: To determine the costs and cost-effectiveness of an intervention to improve quality of care for children with diarrhea or pneumonia in 14 hospitals in Nicaragua, based on expenditure data and impact measures. METHODS: Hospital length of stay (LOS) and deaths were abstracted from a random...