Cost impact of procalcitonin-guided decision making on duration of antibiotic therapy for suspected early-onset sepsis in neonates

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11110%2F21%3A10433037" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11110/21:10433037 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00064203:_____/21:10433037 RIV/00216208:11130/21:10433037

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6mO1vRaw6_" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6mO1vRaw6_</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-021-03789-x" target="_blank" >10.1186/s13054-021-03789-x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cost impact of procalcitonin-guided decision making on duration of antibiotic therapy for suspected early-onset sepsis in neonates

Original language description

BACKGROUNDS: The large, international, randomized controlled NeoPInS trial showed that procalcitonin (PCT)-guided decision making was superior to standard care in reducing the duration of antibiotic therapy and hospitalization in neonates suspected of early-onset sepsis (EOS), without increased adverse events. This study aimed to perform a cost-minimization study of the NeoPInS trial, comparing health care costs of standard care and PCT-guided decision making based on the NeoPInS algorithm, and to analyze subgroups based on country, risk category and gestational age. METHODS: Data from the NeoPInS trial in neonates born after 34 weeks of gestational age with suspected EOS in the first 72 h of life requiring antibiotic therapy were used. We performed a cost-minimization study of health care costs, comparing standard care to PCT-guided decision making. RESULTS: In total, 1489 neonates were included in the study, of which 754 were treated according to PCT-guided decision making and 735 received standard care. Mean health care costs of PCT-guided decision making were not significantly different from costs of standard care (EUR3649 vs. EUR3616). Considering subgroups, we found a significant reduction in health care costs of PCT-guided decision making for risk category &apos;infection unlikely&apos; and for gestational age &gt;= 37 weeks in the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, and for gestational age &lt; 37 weeks in the Czech Republic. CONCLUSIONS: Health care costs of PCT-guided decision making of term and late-preterm neonates with suspected EOS are not significantly different from costs of standard care. Significant cost reduction was found for risk category &apos;infection unlikely,&apos; and is affected by both the price of PCT-testing and (prolonged) hospitalization due to SAEs.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30200 - Clinical medicine

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Critical Care [online]

ISSN

1466-609X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

367

UT code for WoS article

000709318900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85117615638