Estimating the costs for the treatment of abortion complications in two public referral hospitals: a cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Ilboudo, PGC, Greco, G, Sundby, J and Torsvik, G. 2016. Estimating the costs for the treatment of abortion complications in two public referral hospitals: a cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. [Online]. BioMed Central. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1822-7.

Ilboudo, PGC, Greco, G, Sundby, J and Torsvik, G. Estimating the costs for the treatment of abortion complications in two public referral hospitals: a cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso [Internet]. BioMed Central; 2016. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1822-7.

Ilboudo, PGC, Greco, G, Sundby, J and Torsvik, G (2016). Estimating the costs for the treatment of abortion complications in two public referral hospitals: a cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. [Data Collection]. BioMed Central. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1822-7.

Description

Treatment costs of induced abortion complications can consume a substantial amount of hospital resources. This use of hospitals scarce resources to treat induced abortion complications may affect hospitals’ capacities to deliver other health care services. In spite of the importance of studying the burden of the treatment of induced abortion complications, few studies have been conducted to document the costs of treating abortion complications in Burkina Faso. Our objective was to estimate the costs of six abortion complications including incomplete abortion, hemorrhage, shock, infection/sepsis, cervix or vagina laceration, and uterus perforation treated in two public referral hospital facilities in Ouagadougou and the cost saving of providing safe abortion care services.

Methods

Data capture method

Questionnaire: Fixed form

Date (Date published in a 3rd party system)

7 October 2016

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
12.5883	-1.04988	12.0368	-1.8972

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Ilboudo, PGC, Greco, G, Sundby, J and Torsvik, G
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Public Health and Policy > Dept of Global Health and Development
Participating Institutions	Unité de Recherche Politiques et Systèmes de Santé, Centre MURAZ, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK, University of Bergen,Bergen, Norway, Chr Michelsen Institute, Scandinavia