| Bootstrapped mean costs of home birth group1 | Bootstrapped mean costs of short-stay hospital birth group2 | Differences (mean (2.5th percentile, 97.5th percentile)) | Mean costs of home birth group1 N = 255 (56.8%) | Mean costs of short-stay hospital birth group2 N = 194 (43.2%) |
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Week 16 -- 28 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Cost of contacts with health care professionals | €105.17 | €106.03 | 1 (-11, 12) | €105.00 | €106.09 |
Cost of medication | €6.56 | €4.51 | -2 (-5, 1) | €6.54 | €4.47 |
Cost of hospitalisation | €11.00 | €0 | -11 (-29, 0) | €10.71 | €0 |
Subtotal week 16 -- 28 | €121.89 | €110.51 | -11 (-40, 8) | €122.26 | €110.56 |
Week 29 -- 42 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Cost of contacts with health care professionals | €221.33 | €234.34 | 13 (-13, 38) | €221.42 | €234.39 |
Cost of medication | €14.51 | €9.31 | -5 (-13, 0) | €14.38 | €9.29 |
Cost of hospitalisation | €253.19 | €212.31 | -41 (-199, 138) | €249.51 | €213.27 |
Subtotal week 29 -- 42 | €486.30 | €454.71 | -32 (-214, 147) | €485.31 | €456.95 |
Delivery | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Cost of contacts with health care professionals | €138.92 | €87.61 | -51 (-69, -34)* | €139.23 | €87.88 |
Cost of hospitalisation | €50.69 | €42.87 | -8 (-33, 19) | €50.51 | €42.25 |
Cost of medical interventions | €461.52 | €468.69 | 7 (-42, 60) | €462.35 | €468.35 |
Cost of pain control | €7.63 | €8.69 | 1 (-2, 5) | €7.63 | €8.70 |
Subtotal delivery | €659.26 | €606.83 | -52 (-115, 6) | €659.72 | €607.18 |
Postpartum care | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Cost of contacts with health care professionals | €164.42 | €153.61 | -11 (-23, 1) | € 164,25 | €153.66 |
Cost of maternity care assistance at home | €1,505.53 | €1,309.11 | -196 (-297, -96)* | € 1.504,75 | €1,307.65 |
Cost of help from family and friends | €27.05 | €35.10 | 8 (-8, 27) | € 26,87 | €34.85 |
Cost of medication | €6.47 | €5.30 | -1 (-4, 1) | € 6,57 | €5.29 |
Cost of hospitalisation mother | €680.63 | €895.09 | 214 (35, 395)* | € 679,63 | €893.33 |
Cost of hospitalisation child | €609.90 | €870.89 | 261 (-54, 633) | € 606,16 | €871.20 |
Subtotal postpartum care | €2,988.07 | €3,259.98 | 272 (-140, 702) | €2.988,24 | €3,265.99 |
Transportation costs during delivery | €34.33 | €21.37 | -13 (-28, 4) | €34,26 | €21.44 |
Extra costs incurred by responders | €69.03 | €71.28 | 2 (-12, 17) | €68,90 | €71.56 |
Total health care costs | €4,225.98 | €4,401.77 | 176 (-352, 730) | €4.228,66 | €4,405.84 |
Total non-health care cost | €130.03 | €128.17 | -2 (-29, 26) | €130,03 | €127.85 |
Total costs | €4,364.42 | €4,541.22 | 177 (-313, 734) | €4.358,69 | €4,533.68 |