Cost Analysis of the Dutch Obstetric System: low-risk nulliparous women preferring home or short-stay hospital birth - a prospective non-randomised controlled study

Table 8 Analysis actual place of birth (n = 418)

	Mean costs of home birth group¹ n = 96 (23.0%)	Mean costs of short-stay hospital birth group² N = 31 (7.4%)	Mean costs of hospital group³ N = 291 (69.6%)
Subtotal week 16 -- 28	€100.65	€115.74	€122.50
Subtotal week 29 -- 42	€202.07*	€214.53*	€607.96*
Subtotal delivery	€562.78*	€491.07*	€719.87*
Subtotal postpartum care	€2,227.26*	€1,924.40*	€3,649.62*
Total health care costs	€3,056.43*	€2,711.47*	€5,071.83*
Total non health care cost	€116.35	€104.95	€136.54
*Total costs actual place of birth*	€3,172.78*	€2,816.42*	€5,208.37*

¹ Costs of women who gave birth at home under the supervision of a midwife (primary care)
² Costs of women who gave birth in a short-stay hospital setting under the supervision of a midwife (primary care)
³ Costs of women who gave birth in a hospital under the supervision of an obstetrician (secondary care)
*p < 0.05

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