Resource use items | Unit cost (£)* | Source |
Intervention | ||
Cost per day on parenteral nutrition | 45 | Walter et al 28 |
Intensive care | ||
Cost per day in intensive care (differentiated by level of care required) | NHS Reference Costs29 | |
Level 1—Intensive Care | 1295 | |
Level 2—High Dependency Care | 1032 | |
Level 3—Special Care | 510 | |
Initial hospital stay | ||
Cost per pulmonary haemorrhage | 1485 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Cost per IVH by severity: | ||
Grade 1 IVH/Germinal matrix haemorrhage | 862 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Grade 2 IVH | 1472 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Grade 3/4 IVH | 1519 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Course of shunts for hydrocephalus | 2608 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia | 5954 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Periventricular leukomalacia | 1341 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Retinopathy treated medically or surgically | 1603 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
PDA treated with NSAID | 1152 | BNFC30 |
Surgeries due to gut signs | 6629 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Cost of antibiotic medication per day | 3.00 | BNFC30 |
Cost of antifungal treatment per day | 1.06 | BNFC30 |
Cost per mL of Preterm milk formula | 0.02 | Ganapathy et al 31 |
Cost per packet of breast milk fortifier | 0.93 | Ganapathy et al 31 |
Cost per litre of donor breast milk | 335 | Renfrew et al 32 |
Cost per 200 mL of term formula milk | 2.00 | Renfrew et al 32 |
Resource use during 2-year follow-up | ||
Cost per out-patient day | 199 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Cost per in-patient day | 635 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Cost per operation | 2247 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Cost per GP visit | 33 | Curtis and Burns10 |
Cost per Health Visitor visit | 75 | Curtis and Burns10 |
Cost per Community Nurse visit | 36 | Curtis and Burns10 |
Cost per Home Visitor/Volunteer visit | 19 | Curtis and Burns10 |
Cost per Community Paediatrician visit | 407 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Cost per Physiotherapist visit | 95 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Cost per Social Worker visit | 39 | Curtis and Burns10 |
Cost per Speech and language therapist visit | 95 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Cost per Dietician visit | 85 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
Cost per Other health professional visit | 135 | NHS Reference Costs29 |
*Inflated to 2017–2018 costs using the UK hospital and community health services pay and prices index. Costs were assigned using a macrocosting (top-down) approach.20
GP, general practitioner; IVH, intraventricular haemorrhage (intracranial abnormality); NSAID, non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; PDA, patent ductus arteriosus.