Perinatal and health care management consequences of twice-a-day versus once-a-day evaluation of home uterine activity monitoring data

J Health Care Finance. 1996 Summer;22(4):15-21.

Abstract

There was a significant increase in the number of physician interventions (additional testing of mother or baby; extra office, emergency, or labor and delivery unit visits; and especially extra hospitalizations) but no significant difference in perinatal outcome (illness in mother or baby) when women at high-risk for preterm labor on home uterine activity monitoring services had scheduled twice-a-day review (BID review) of the home uterine activity monitoring data they had collected versus once-a-day review (OD review).

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Female
  • Home Care Services / economics*
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Length of Stay / economics
  • Managed Care Programs / economics*
  • Minnesota
  • Obstetric Labor, Premature / prevention & control*
  • Patient Admission / economics
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy, High-Risk
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Uterine Monitoring / economics*
  • Wisconsin