Estimating the health-care costs of children born to pregnant smokers in England: cohort study using primary and secondary health-care data.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Little is known about the long-term economic consequences of smoking during pregnancy. We estimated the association between smoking in pregnancy and the costs of delivering health-care to infants and children in England, and investigated which aspects of care are the key drivers of these costs.

Methods

We used Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) linked with Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data in England from January 2003 to January 2015 in children with longitudinal data for at least 1, 5 and 10 years after birth. Poisson regression provided rate ratios (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) comparing health-care episode rates between those exposed and not exposed to smoking during pregnancy. Linear regression was used to compare estimated cost

SUBMITTER: Vaz LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6033143 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature