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A Critical Review of Cost Reduction in Neonatal Intensive Care II. Strategies for Reduction

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Neonatal intensive care is extremely expensive; there is both a financial and an ethical obligation to practice efficiently. In the current era of intense cost containment in hospital care, neonatologists and hospital administrators are under pressure to find strategies for cost reduction for neonatal services. In this review, we address reducing discretionary admissions, the high costs of low-cost testing, minimizing use of selected high-cost technologies (ventilators and parenteral nutrition), shortening length of stay, and optimizing nursing allocation.

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This project was supported by a sabbatical grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund while D. K. Richardson was visiting the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in Oxford England. J. A. F. Zupancic is funded by the Medical Research Council, Canada.

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This project was supported by a sabbatical grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund while D. K. Richardson was visiting the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in Oxford England. J.A.F. Zupancic is funded by the Medical Research Council, Canada.

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Richardson, D., Zupancic, J., Escobar, G. et al. A Critical Review of Cost Reduction in Neonatal Intensive Care II. Strategies for Reduction. J Perinatol 21, 121–127 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jp.7200501

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