Table 3 Healthcare acts and costs per delivery, overall and stratified by process and delivery type
Vaginal non-instrumented (N = 575) | Vaginal instrumented (N = 171) | Cesarean section (N = 280) | p of acts | p of cost | ||||||||||
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Process | Acts | % | Costs (SD) | % | Acts | % | Costs (SD) | % | Acts | % | Costs (SD) | % | ||
Pregnancy | ||||||||||||||
Primary care visits | 5.55 (4.3) | 32,8 | 132.39 (97.9) | 3,6 | 6.02 (4.4) | 31,5 | 143.46 (100.0) | 3,5 | 6.14 (4.5) | 29,8 | 145.92 (101.3) | 2,5 | 0,089 | 0,091 |
Emergencies | 1.79 (2.3) | 10,6 | 155.49 (197.1) | 4,2 | 2.08 (2.4) | 10,9 | 187.70 (217.7) | 4,6 | 1.94 (2.1) | 9,4 | 169.38 (194.4) | 2,9 | 0,100 | 0,044 |
Hospital contacts | 2.08 (2.7) | 12,3 | 247.24 (470.1) | 6,7 | 2.42 (3.1) | 12,7 | 333.13 (638.9) | 8,2 | 3.06 (4.3) | 14,9 | 300.53 (425.3) | 5,2 | 0,017 | 0,012 |
Tests | 3.24 (2.5) | 19,1 | 187.99 (226.5) | 5,1 | 3.58 (2.6) | 18,8 | 206.50 (228.0) | 5,1 | 4.31 (2.8) | 21,0 | 265.28 (271.7) | 4,6 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
Delivery | ||||||||||||||
Maternal admission | 1 | 5,9 | 2,104.56 (311.7) | 57,2 | 1 | 5,2 | 2,360.64 (385.8) | 58,1 | 1 | 4,9 | 3,226.70 (1,148.7) | 55,5 | <0.001 | |
Neonatal admission | 1.02 (0.1) | 6,0 | 683.36 (1,370.5) | 18,6 | 1.01 (0.1) | 5,3 | 637.21 (433.2) | 15,7 | 1.05 (0.2) | 5,1 | 1,356.89 (2,190.1) | 23,3 | 0,072 | <0.001 |
Three-month postnatal care | ||||||||||||||
Primary care visits | 1.34 (1.5) | 7,9 | 28.72 (31.1) | 0,8 | 1.60 (1.5) | 8,4 | 34.29 (31.0) | 0,8 | 1.54 (1.4) | 7,5 | 32.54 (30.5) | 0,6 | 0,014 | 0,018 |
Hospital contacts | ||||||||||||||
Newborn | 0.76 (1.3) | 4,5 | 127.37 (461.0) | 3,5 | 0.87 (1.2) | 4,6 | 104.11 (328.4) | 2,6 | 0.86 (1.3) | 4,2 | 185.47 (716.2) | 3,2 | 0,026 | 0,012 |
Mother | 0.13 (0.4) | 0,8 | 14.54 (101.7) | 0,4 | 0.49 (1.3) | 2,6 | 55.44 (219.2) | 1,4 | 0.62 (1.4) | 3,0 | 128.18 (1,057.4) | 2,2 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
Tests | 0.01 (0.1) | 0,1 | 0.31 (3.7) | 0,0 | 0.02 (0.3) | 0,1 | 1.89 (24.7) | 0,0 | 0.05 (0.8) | 0,2 | 4.08 (65.4) | 0,1 | 0,986 | 0,986 |
Total per delivery | 16.93 (7.6) | 100 | 3,681.98 (1,747.9) | 100 | 19.09 (8.0) | 100 | 4064.38 (1,222.1) | 100 | 20.57 (8.7) | 100 | 5,814.98 (3,231.9) | 100 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
Total for all deliveries | 9.733 | 2.117.138,99 | 3.264 | 695.009,72 | 5.759 | 1.628.195,40 | ||||||||