title: Cost-effectiveness analysis: birth center vs. hospital care.
abstract: Increasingly nursing will need to prove the cost effectiveness of alternative models of care. A cost-effectiveness analysis, using a decision analysis format, compared a birthing center to a hospital for low-risk deliveries. Results indicate that a birth center is a cost-effective model of nursing care.
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Stone
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D016550:Birthing Centers / Q000191:economics*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003663:Decision Trees; D003696:Delivery Rooms / Q000191:economics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009721:Nurse Midwives; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D011247:Pregnancy