Cost-minimization analysis of the continuous real-time pressure sensing technology in parturients requesting labor epidural analgesia

Anesthesia services management, economics, and new technologies

“…Babazade et al provided a timely cost-minimization analysis for a new technology, to replace the loss of resistance technique used to identify the epidural space, and that has been shown to reduce costs by mitigating postdural puncture headache. 5 While this may not be the most ideal design for decision-making, particularly with regard to cost-utility or cost-effectiveness studies, it still provides us with superior evidence when compared to most of the new technology we currently use.…”