Sentence examples for ascertaining costs from inspiring English sources

Besides the practical difficulties in ascertaining costs of dengue outbreaks in the field, the costing of dengue outbreaks is problematic in several other respects: i) the health systems and the economy of countries are very different in terms of their health systems' structures and the resources deployed to combat dengue.

They highlighted the difficulty of ascertaining cost measurement accurately because most mentoring programs rely on donated resources in addition to or outside the funded budget.

Even insurance premiums, the knowledge of which would help ascertain costs and magnitude of risk, are hard to access.

Based on the simulated demolition sequence, contractors are able to estimate the numbers of workers, types of machine hired and time required accurately, as well as to ascertain costs of demolition and budget some contingency.

Most studies ascertained costs retrospectively and from the literature.

We ascertained costs of often used drugs from local merchants.

Children who develop cough as a symptom at any time over the 12 months are subsequently followed weekly for four weeks to ascertain costs and cough outcomes.

To ascertain cost-effective application of markers in a breeding program, high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis was performed; four markers were found to perfectly separate sexes in pistachio.

A health economic analysis is also included with the objective of ascertaining the cost effectiveness of the intervention compared to standard care, and the potential benefit of the intervention in terms of number of life years saved.

The Markov model (see Figures 1, 2 and 3) utilised results from the pivotal sunitinib phase III study by Motzer et al (2006) and a survival study by Demetri et al (2006) to ascertain the cost and cost-effectiveness associated with taking the approved 50 mg day−1 of sunitinib in a 4 week with 2 week rest treatment schedule.

Obviously, as with all measurement systems, there has to be a clear cost-benefit analysis in order to ascertain the costs of implementation versus the benefit of the measurement system.