New Healthcare Economics Findings from University of Oslo Outlined (Saving Newborn Babies – The Benefits of Interventions in Neonatal Care in Norway…

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New Healthcare Economics Findings from University of Oslo Outlined (Saving Newborn Babies - The Benefits of Interventions in Neonatal Care in Norway over More Than 40?Years)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Current study results on Health and Medicine - Healthcare Economics have been published. According to news originating from Oslo, Norway, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "The aim of this study was to examine the effect that the introduction of new medical interventions at birth has had on mortality among newborn babies in Norway during the period 1967-2011. During this period, there has been a significant decline in mortality, in particular for low birth weight infants."

Financial support for this research came from South-Eastern Norway Health Authority (see also Health and Medicine - Healthcare Economics).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Oslo, "We identified four interventions that together explained about 50% of the decline in early neonatal and infant mortality: ventilators, antenatal steroids, surfactant and insure. The analyses were performed on a large set of data, encompassing more than 1.6 million deliveries (Medical Birth Registry of Norway). The richness of the data allowed us to perform several robustness tests."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Our study indicates that the introduction of new medical interventions has been a very important channel through which the decline in mortality among newborn babies occurred during the second half of the last century."

For more information on this research see: Saving Newborn Babies - The Benefits of Interventions in Neonatal Care in Norway over More Than 40?Years. Health Economics, 2016;26(3):352-370. (Wiley-Blackwell - www.wiley.com/; Health Economics - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1050)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from J. Grytten, Dept. of Community Dentistry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Additional authors for this research include L. Monkerud, I. Skau, A. Eskild, R.J. Sorensen and O.D Saugstad.

Keywords for this news article include: Oslo, Norway, Europe, Health and Medicine, Healthcare Economics.