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Economic analysis of the costs associated with prematurity from a literature review A.L. Soilly a,b,*, C. Lejeune c, C. Quantin d, S. Bejean b, J.B. Gouyon a,e a

Centre d’Epide´miologie et de Sante´ Publique de Bourgogne, EA 4184, Universite´ de Bourgogne, Dijon, France Universite´ de Bourgogne, Laboratoire d’Economie et de Gestion, CNRS FRE3496, Dijon, France c Inserm, CIE1, CHU de Dijon, Dijon, France d CHRU, Service de Biostatistique et d’Informatique Me´dicale, CHU de Dijon, France e CHU de la Re´union, Centre d’Etudes Pe´rinatales de l’Oce´an Indien, France b

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abstract

Article history:

Objectives: To analyse published cost-of-illness studies that had assessed the cost of pre-

Received 18 October 2012

maturity according to gestational age at birth.

Received in revised form

Methods: A review of the literature was carried out in March 2011 using the following da-

12 February 2013

tabases: Medline, ScienceDirect, The Cochrane Library, Econlit and Business Source Pre-

Accepted 23 September 2013

mier, and a French Public-Health database. Key-word sequences related to ‘prematurity’

Available online 18 December 2013

and ‘costs’ were considered. Studies that assessed costs according to the gestational age

Keywords:

the last two decades were included. Variations in the reported costs were analysed using a

Economic burden of prematurity

check-list, which allowed the studies to be described according to several methodological

Cost analysis

and contextual criteria.

Gestational age

Results: A total of 18 studies published since 1990 were included. According to these studies,

Review

costs were assessed for different follow-up periods (short, medium or long-term), and for

(GA) at the premature birth (