Priority -setting in teams provides no significant improvement compared to individual rating, and the additional use of these resources may be questionable.
Our research partnership with CCRs required additional use of research resources and personnel including time for researchers to plan, coordinate and manage processes involving communication, meeting procedures and provision of documentation.
[ 33, 34] * Additional use of health care resources (including GP, psychologist, physiotherapist, acupuncture) will be reported by the patient at 26 week follow-up by completing a checklist.
The true costs are likely to be much higher, since Medicare excludes inpatient care, costs to educational or other systems and the additional use of family household resources such as time, effort and out of pocket expenses that could well match or exceed the costs to government reported here.
Extended use of Holter monitoring affected the ICER in two ways, a higher detection rate and extra costs due to the additional use of personnel and material resources.
Although it was primarily designed to describe resource intensity, this additional use of the SCIPP was inspired by the use of case mix measures for risk adjustment of quality indicators in other health sectors, including long term care [ 36].
Nevertheless, some models have additional equations to assess use of resources, usually measured as risk-adjusted, weighted, ICU- or hospital days [ 9, 13, 18].
The results of the study show that when comparing generic and brand gabapentin and venlafaxine in patients with pNP and GAD, respectively, generic was shown to have lower adherence and a shorter treatment persistence, which was associated with incremental use of resources producing additional health care costs for the Spanish National Health System.
