Economic evaluation of Community Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) in South Asian and African countries: a study protocol

Table 1 Project milestones (GANTT chart) for economic evaluation of the CLIP

2015	2016			2017
1–4 (Sep–Dec)	5–8 (Jan–Apr)	9–16 (May–Dec)		17–22 (Jan–June)	23–24 (Jul–Aug)
Phase I		Phase II		Phase III
Designing/Testing the costing model (Pakistan only)		Validation/Extrapolation of the costing model (India, Nigeria, and Mozambique)		Determining an evidence for economic impact of the CLIP (All four sites)
Field level planning; and conducting qualitative focus groups (FGs) and data analysis	Collecting costing data and data analysis	Conducting FGs; and collecting cost data	Data analysis and extrapolation of model	Generating country-specific cost-effectiveness models	Writing report; and conducting final result dissemination seminar
		Conducting FGs; and collecting cost data		-Calculating incremental cost per combined maternal/perinatal outcomes averted
		-Baseline survey for cost estimation
-FGs with community
-FGs with health providers -FGD with Policy makers community and health workers
			-Model validation
		-Collecting price list for health services
		-Review of district level cHCP budget
				-Calculating incremental cost per DALY gained.
				Country-specific budgetary analysis
		-FGs with community
	-Baseline survey for cost estimation
	-Collecting price list for health services
	-Review of district level cHCP budget
	-Designing/Testing the model
		-FGs with health providers
		-FGD with Policy makers

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