Nurse-supported breastfeeding promotion: a framework for economic evaluation.
Increasingly, economic evaluation results are considered by policymakers, although few nurse-led interventions have undergone such an evaluation. Nurse-supported breastfeeding promotion is used as an exemplar to illustrate economic evaluation. Past work is critiqued and lessons learned are described.
Frick
Kevin D
KD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Milligan
Renee A
RA
White
Kathleen M
KM
Serwint
Janet R
JR
Pugh
Linda C
LC
D001294:Attitude to Health; D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000191:economics*; D017046:Cost Savings; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008429:Maternal Welfare; D018803:Models, Economic; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009017:Morbidity; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011788:Quality of Life; D019057:Quality-Adjusted Life Years; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012945:Social Values