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Community Health and Preventive Medicine

Aga Khan University

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of Implementing An Integrated Neonatal Care Kit To Reduce Neonatal Infection In Rural Pakistan, Fiona Muttalib, Karen Chung, Lisa Grace Pell, Shabina Ariff, Sajid Soofi, Shaun K. Morris, Beate Sander Jan 2022

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of Implementing An Integrated Neonatal Care Kit To Reduce Neonatal Infection In Rural Pakistan, Fiona Muttalib, Karen Chung, Lisa Grace Pell, Shabina Ariff, Sajid Soofi, Shaun K. Morris, Beate Sander

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

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 …