Cost Minimisation
Paediatric palliative care by video consultation at home: a cost minimisation analysis
... A cost minimisation analysis was undertaken to compare the actual costs of the HTP consultations, with the estimated potential costs associated with face-to face-consultations occurring by either i) ...
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A cost-minimisation analysis of inpatient versus day surgery for gynaecological laparoscopy
... In cost- effectiveness analysis, relevant outcomes could be numbers of patients successfully treated without side effects or gain in lifetime without gynaecological problems, cost-utility analysis expresses ...
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An economic analysis of email based telemedicine: A cost minimisation study of two service models
... Background: Email-based telemedicine has been reported to be an efficient method of delivering online health services to patients at a distance and is often described as a low-cost form of telemedicine. The ...
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The potential savings of using thiazides as the first choice antihypertensive drug: cost minimisation analysis
... Methods: For six countries (Canada, France, Germany, Norway, the UK and the US) we estimated the number of people that are being treated for hypertension, and the proportion of them that are suitable candidates for ...
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A cost minimisation analysis of a telepaediatric otolaryngology service
... Bundaberg is the region where the pilot tele-ENT work has been carried out. Bundaberg is a coastal region situated approximately 385 km north of the Brisbane (Figure 2). The population of Bundaberg and surrounding area ...
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A prospective cohort study to investigate cost-minimisation, of Traditional open, open fAst track recovery and laParoscopic fASt track multimodal management, for surgical patients with colon carcinomas (TAPAS study)
... All patients with colon carcinoma, eligible for surgical treatment within the study period in four general teaching hospitals and one university hospital will be included. This design produces three cohorts: Conventional ...
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A cost minimisation analysis in teledermatology: model based approach
... The proportion of preventable consultations (20%) that resulted from our trial is too low to show a positive cost effect of teledermatology compared to conventional care. When increasing the proportion of ...
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Cost minimisation in micro hydro systems using pumps as turbines
... Category: end-suction/volute radial-flow with fixed vanes 0.742 D 2 312mm Data extent stallE-runaway Data quality: absolute values Extra data: geometry Data presentation: constant speed [r] ...
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The commodification of mobile workers in Europe - a comparative perspective on capital and labour in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden
... Cost-minimisation strategies cause employers to avoid searching for native workers, as they need to pay higher wages to them than they do for mobile (foreign) workers. At the same time, premiums and taxes ...
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Key Aspects of the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
... The PBS Guidelines were developed based on a body of economic theory and analysis, known as pharmacoeconomics, that was developed to provide a rationale for decisions about the price to be paid for medical treatments and ...
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Waste Minimisation in Construction Industry
... Materials, as one of the resources employed by the construction industry, pass through a number of processes before they are finally incorporated in construction. These processes bring about inadequacies of the materials ...
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Structural analysis and prediction of molecular geometry of chelate complexes
... ix PART II THE PREDICTION OF MOLECULAR GEOMETRY AND RELATIVE STABILITIES USING STRAIN ENERGY MINIMISATION Page The Minimisation Method and Potential Functions 96 1.1 Introduction 96 1.2 [r] ...
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Terminology Extraction: Towards Resource Minimization (Extraction terminologique : vers la minimisation de ressources) [in French]
... la minimisation de l’importance des opérations statistiques (en démultipliant les traits linguistiques pris en compte), soit par l’emploi de corpus de référence pour augmenter le contraste entre les termes et les ...
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Awareness and minimisation of systematic bias in research
... In contrast, systematic error, typically referred to as bias, is broadly defined as a factor which will tend to lead to an erroneous conclusion Daly et al, 1991 and is caused by a featur[r] ...
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Bisimulation minimisation and probabilistic model checking
... bisimulation minimisation for probabilistic model ...bisimulation minimisation can significantly re- duce DTMCs and CTMCs consisting of millions of ...bisimulation minimisation did not lead to a ...
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The societal demand for multifunctionality – priorities from the perspective of regional stakeholders
... the cost to preserve the agricultural landscape is one of the criteria, this procedure can be used to calculate the WTP for changes in the aesthetic beauty of agricultural landscape, assuming that marginal changes ...
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waste minimization
... On-site recycling Off-site recycling disposal disposal source source waste No waste minimisation With waste minimisation, recycling and treatment to treatment waste... Preferred hi[r] ...
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Computationally efficient changepoint detection for a range of penalties
... again with the estimated segmentation being the one that attains the minima. This second approach, of directly minimising (1.3) is computationally faster than solving the constrained penalisation problem for a range of ...
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Waste prevention and minimisation. Final report
... 9 Freiburg, Darmstadt, Berlin Schedule for the tax on municipal wastes Table !.4 Year 1995 1996-1997 1998 Tax/inhabitant/year 64 - 84 EURO one person household 74- 96 EURO 2 or more pers[r] ...
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Sequence balance minimisation: minimising with unequal treatment allocations
... balance minimisation has good treatment- and factor-balancing capabilities, and the randomisation distribution was centred at zero for all ...the minimisation scheme had little impact on treatment ...the ...
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