Devices and furniture for small and sick newborn care: systematic development of a planning and costing tool
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Published:2023-11-15
Issue:S2
Volume:23
Page:
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ISSN:1471-2431
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Container-title:BMC Pediatrics
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language:en
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Short-container-title:BMC Pediatr
Author:
Tarus Alice,Msemo Georgina,Kamuyu Rosemary,Shamba Donat,Kirby Rebecca P.,Palamountain Kara M.,Gicheha Edith,Kumar Meghan Bruce,Powell-Jackson Timothy,Bohne Christine,Murless-Collins Sarah,Liaghati-Mobarhan Sara,Morgan Alison,Oden Z. Maria,Richards-Kortum Rebecca,Lawn Joy E.
Abstract
AbstractBackgroundHigh-quality neonatal care requires sufficient functional medical devices, furniture, fixtures, and use by trained healthcare workers, however there is lack of publicly available tools for quantification and costing. This paper describes development and use of a planning and costing tool regarding furniture, fixtures and devices to support scale-up of WHO level-2 neonatal care, for national and global newborn survival targets.MethodsWe followed a systematic process. First, we reviewed planning and costing tools of relevance. Second, we co-designed a new tool to estimate furniture and device set-up costs for a default 40-bed level-2 neonatal unit, incorporating input from multi-disciplinary experts and newborn care guidelines. Furniture and device lists were based off WHO guidelines/norms, UNICEF and national manuals/guides. Due to lack of evidence-based quantification, ratios were based on operational manuals, multi-country facility assessment data, and expert opinion. Default unit costs were from government procurement agency costs in Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania. Third, we refined the tool by national use in Tanzania.ResultsThe tool adapts activity-based costing (ABC) to estimate quantities and costs to equip a level-2 neonatal unit based on three components: (1) furniture/fixtures (18 default but editable items); (2) neonatal medical devices (16 product categories with minimum specifications for use in low-resource settings); (3) user training at device installation. The tool was used in Tanzania to generate procurement lists and cost estimates for level-2 scale-up in 171 hospitals (146 District and 25 Regional Referral). Total incremental cost of all new furniture and equipment acquisition, installation, and user training were US$93,000 per District hospital (level-2 care) and US$346,000 per Regional Referral hospital. Estimated cost per capita for whole-country district coverage was US$0.23, representing 0.57% increase in government health expenditure per capita and additional 0.35% for all Regional Referral hospitals.ConclusionGiven 2.3 million neonatal deaths and potential impact of level-2 newborn care, rational and efficient planning of devices linked to systems change is foundational. In future iterations, we aim to include consumables, spare parts, and maintenance cost options. More rigorous implementation research data are crucial to formulating evidence-based ratios for devices numbers per baby. Use of this tool could help overcome gaps in devices numbers, advance efficiency and quality of neonatal care.
Funder
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
ELMA Foundation
Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Lemelson Foundation
Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Family Foundation
Sall Family Foundation
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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