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Problems and Prospects in the Economic Evaluation of Antenatal Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Harald Buhaug
Harald Buhaug
Affiliation:
Norwegian Institute for Hospital Research, Trondheim
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Abstract

Economic evaluations can be used to compare alternative antenatal care programs in terms of cost and outcome. The cost of routine antenatal care is small compared to the total cost associated with pregnancy and childbirth. The main problem in economic evaluations is related to outcome measurement.

Type
Methodological Considerations in the Evaluation of Antenatal Care Programs
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 8 , Supplement S1 , January 1992 , pp. 49 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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