The phrase "as a means of cost" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an attempt to express a method related to cost, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "We are exploring various strategies as a means of cost reduction in our operations."
Alternatives: "as a way to reduce costs" or "to manage expenses."
Improved treatment efficiency serves as a means of cost reduction and is a reason to identify outlier characteristics.
In our financially constrained world, the clinical losses associated with generalised use of teleradiology may be accepted by governments and health care insurers as a means of cost containment [1].
User fees were presented as a means of cost recovery of public health expenditure, as well as enhancing efficiency and equity [ 3, 8].
Surgeons had lower odds than primary care providers to express enthusiasm for promoting better conversations as a means of cost containment (OR 0.7; 95% CI 0.6 to 0.9), while responding physicians' region of practice, age and type of practice setting did not appear to be associated with their views on this item.
6 Switches from a branded medicine to a generic version (and between different brands as a means of cost-saving) are commonplace.
Within the current financial climate, digital technology is often held up as a means of providing cost effective solutions to a wealth of problems dealt with by local public services.
In regions with small populations, over-sampling is done to ensure that there is a large enough sample to be representative, while under-sampling is done in regions with large populations as a means of saving cost.
This avoids the need for explicit synchronisation and is touted as a means of reducing costs but there are a number of scenarios where the net complexity and cost is increased by the need of the additional post-processing step.
Instead of shedding jobs, many employers seem to be favouring pay restraint and reduced working hours as a means of controlling costs".
That would fall neatly into a strategy announced by Daniel F. Akerson, the company's chairman and chief executive, to whittle its number of vehicle platforms as a means of cutting costs.
HMOs stress preventive medicine and out-patient treatment as opposed to hospitalization as a means of reducing costs, a policy that has caused an increased number of empty hospital beds in the United States.
