PMID- 10186710
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19981104
LR  - 20191024
IS  - 1078-4659 (Print)
IS  - 1078-4659 (Linking)
VI  - 3
IP  - 2
DP  - 1997 Mar
TI  - A cost evaluation of implementing a quality-oriented, regional perinatal data 
      system.
PG  - 37-40
AB  - We evaluated the cost impact of implementing a perinatal data system (PDS) on 
      birth certificate (BC) processing and perinatal quality improvement (QI) 
      reporting. Relevant staff in all birthing hospitals in the 15-county Central New 
      York region (N = 23) were interviewed at baseline prior to implementation of the 
      PDS and one year after implementation of the PDS to ascertain the time and costs 
      of BC processing and of QI report generation. The average time and cost to 
      collect and complete BCs did not change significantly from baseline to year 1. 
      The time and costs to complete QI reports decreased significantly by 70 percent 
      during this same period. Hospitals fully using the PDS for QI reporting purposes 
      took, on average, six percent of the time it took other hospitals to generate 
      comparable QI reports. The PDS significantly reduced the time and cost of 
      generating perinatal reports from a consolidated database over what hospitals had 
      done previously. Given the richness of the reports and the efficiency with which 
      they are produced, hospitals are encouraged to adopt electronic means of BC 
      processing and accessing these data for QI reporting purposes.
FAU - Dye, T D
AU  - Dye TD
AD  - SUNY Women's and Children's Health Care Research Center, Syracuse, USA.
FAU - Wojtowycz, M A
AU  - Wojtowycz MA
FAU - Aubry, R H
AU  - Aubry RH
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - J Public Health Manag Pract
JT  - Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
JID - 9505213
MH  - Automation/*economics
MH  - *Birth Certificates
MH  - Cost-Benefit Analysis
MH  - Female
MH  - Hospital Information Systems/*economics
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - New York
MH  - Perinatal Care/economics/*organization & administration
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Quality Assurance, Health Care/*organization & administration
EDAT- 1997/02/06 00:00
MHDA- 1997/02/06 00:01
CRDT- 1997/02/06 00:00
PHST- 1997/02/06 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1997/02/06 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1997/02/06 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1097/00124784-199703000-00007 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Public Health Manag Pract. 1997 Mar;3(2):37-40. doi: 
      10.1097/00124784-199703000-00007.