Costs and End-of-Life Care in the NICU: Lessons for the MICU?

John D. Lantos; William Meadow

doi:10.1111/j.1748-720x.2011.00588.x

January 1, 2011The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics

Costs and End-of-Life Care in the NICU: Lessons for the MICU?

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To review the high costs, long-term health outcomes, and cost-effectiveness debates surrounding neonatal intensive care for extremely premature infants.
Synthesizes international economic and epidemiological analyses spanning the past 30 years.
Assesses clinical outcomes and resource utilization stratified by gestational age, birthweight, and illness severity.
Care for extremely premature infants born at 24 weeks of gestation routinely exceeds $300,000 per patient in the United States.
Survivors of extreme prematurity frequently require long-term, high-cost medical services and specialized care throughout childhood or adulthood due to chronic illnesses and disabilities.
Multinational evaluations across three decades have consistently scrutinized whether specific subpopulations of fragile infants derive insufficient benefit from invasive intensive care relative to cost.

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Reviews the cost-effectiveness and outcomes of neonatal intensive care in extremely premature infants, highlighting implications for end-of-life decision-making.

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