How much does it cost to identify a critically ill child experiencing electrographic seizures?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Electrographic seizures in critically ill children may be identified by continuous EEG monitoring. We evaluated the cost effectiveness of 4 electrographic seizure identification strategies (no EEG monitoring and EEG monitoring for 1 hour, 24 hours, or 48 hours).

Methods

We created a decision tree to model the relationships among variables from a societal perspective. To provide input for the model, we estimated variable costs directly related to EEG monitoring from their component parts, and we reviewed the literature to estimate the probabilities of outcomes. We calculated incremental cost-effectiveness ratios to identify the trade-off between cost and effectiveness at different willingness-to-pay values.

Results

Our analysis found that the preferred strat

SUBMITTER: Abend NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4452395 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature