Reports that focus on treatment of cancer patients who live alone are scarce.
Data on long-term growth in children treated with chemotherapy alone are scarce and discordant [ 9, 12, 13, 18, 21– 26].
Specific studies regarding day care for dementia patients alone are scarce, since several respite offers were considered jointly in the published surveys.
Furthermore, data from prevalence studies which looked at psychotic disorders more widely, and not limited to schizophrenia alone, are very scarce [ 9– 11].
For a kid from a small town where elevators of any kind were scarce, let alone skyscrapers, it wasn't exactly the best cautionary example.
These are important gaps in knowledge when assessing the applicability of particular approaches to health care, where modelling and simulation skills are scarce let alone money and time.
This paper also highlights significant knowledge gaps in the existing literature when assessing the applicability of particular approaches to health services management, where modelling and simulation skills are scarce let alone money and time.
In parts of the world where access to any kind of electricity — let alone the green kind — is scarce, however, the news is not as bright, at least not yet.
As resources become scarcer, efficiency improvements alone will not bridge the widening gap between supply and demand, resulting in the need for additional non-financial mechanisms to ensure the fairer allocation of resources.
Furthermore, there has been substantial concern in the literature about how stand-alone programs may drain government of scarce expertise (25, 26).
