Fig. 1
From: An economic analysis of human milk supplementation for very low birth weight babies in the USA
Diagram of model. Notes: Babies can also die during the initial hospital stay. For simplicity, this is not shown in the diagram; †short bowel syndrome is only a possibility for babies who have undergone surgical necrotising enterocolitis treatment; ‡reduction in IQ is applied to babies with necrotising enterocolitis and/or late onset sepsis only (costs to the health care system are limited, thus costs are only included in sensitivity analysis where we consider the societal perspective)