At present, it's only a cottage industry, but its makers are confident that with sufficient backing it could supply the mass market, at equivalent cost, with paper whose ecological footprint is half that of wood-pulp products, and leaves our friends the trees untouched.
Similarly, quadriceps strengthening exercises was not cost effective as it was subject to extended dominance (combinations of leaflet provision and dietary intervention plus quadriceps strengthening exercises could provide a higher benefit at equivalent cost).
We excluded dominated interventions (which had a higher mean overall change in cost to the health service and lower mean QALY gain than another intervention) and interventions that were subject to extended dominance (as combinations of other interventions could provide a greater benefit at equivalent cost).
Precision and implied accuracy appeared substantially better with the visual detection line-transect than with the fixed-width transect for equivalent costs and effort at all three landscapes but as the two methods provide different estimates there are questions of possible bias in both approaches.
This means that the technology must have the potential to have equivalent benefit to patients at lower cost to the NHS, or greater benefit with equivalent costs.
In the end, care will only be improved if these data are used to define methods for innovating care systems that deliver better outcomes at lower or equivalent costs.
The operational level needs to know the economic value of their activities as this could help them to get more results at a lesser or equivalent costs.
In addition, our results serve to validate the lab studies' finding that matching subsidies are more powerful than rebate subsidies of equivalent cost at increasing total giving to charities.
Furthermore, by using a one-shot method the entire optimization problem can be solved at an equivalent cost of only a few forward simulations.
In the past few years, next-generation sequencing (NGS; high-throughput massively parallel sequencing) has allowed an unprecedented increase in our ability to sequence large numbers of genes at an equivalent cost to traditional Sanger sequencing.
Yet the UK will soon find that this involves accepting most EU laws and obligations -- including free movement - but with no ability to influence them, and at equivalent financial costs for EU membership.
