Assessing the cost benefit of WIN interventions in Russia.

The main objective of the study was to quantify the financial impact of the WIN interventions in the pilot maternity hospitals. The setting for the study was 2 of the pilot maternity hospitals in Perm Oblast (City Maternity #21 and Berezniki). A Before and After analysis of hospital and patient related care costs was based on a review of patient records of women who delivered in the WIN hospitals during a six-month period prior to and then following the implementation of WIN interventions. A total of 632 cases were reviewed in the 2 pilot hospitals that participated in the study: a total of 307 cases in Perm #21 and 325 cases in Berezniki. The analysis also collected information on hospitalization (length-of-stay or LOS) for an estimate of more general hospital expenditures. (excerpt)