Dr. Sita Saunders and Dr. Rhodri Saunders co-authored a paper assessing the cost and clinical outcomes of adopting an outpatient strategy with a synthetic hygroscopic cervical dilator, for preinduction cervical ripening. Working together with Tess Wong and Dr. Antonio Saad, we developed a cost-consequence model from a US hospital perspective. The analysis showed that outpatient cervical ripening has the potential to reduce hospital costs, hospital stay, and the caesarean-section rate. It may potentially allow for better infection-prevention control during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and free up resources such that more women might be offered elective IOL at 39 weeks.
Read the publication here. Or, have a look at our other co-authored publications.