Cost-effectiveness of telemonitoring for high-risk pregnant women
View/ Open
Date
2008Author
Buysse, H
De Moor, G
Van Maele, G
Baert, E
Thienpont, G
Temmerman, M
Type
ArticleLanguage
enMetadata
Show full item recordAbstract
PURPOSE:
Cost-minimization is a main topic in present-day health care. Clinicians are urged to keep hospital stays as short as possible, also in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Departments. At present stabilized high-risk pregnant women stay in hospital for the sole purpose of being monitored.
METHOD:
In this retrospective study the cost-effectiveness of telemonitoring of such high-risk pregnant women was calculated by analyzing the data of 456 episodes originating from 415 patients of the Ghent University Hospital.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS:
It was determined that telemonitoring made a cost-reduction of euro 145,822 per year possible. However, variables such as educational level, psychosocial situation, time-travel distance from home to the hospital, reimbursement system and actual clinical status were not included. Furthermore, the Belgian health authorities does not provide for a specific code to allow the billing of teleinterpretation of transmitted results.
URI
http://hinari-gw.who.int/whalecomwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/whalecom0/pubmed/17923433http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/40614
Citation
Int J Med Inform. 2008 Jul;77(7):470-6. Epub 2007 Oct 17Publisher
University of Nairobi Faculty of medicine
Collections
- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]