When this latter proportion is about 20.3%, the prophylaxis strategy is a less cost effective strategy (the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of prophylaxis vs. screening is around 1500 $/LYG).
Therefore, antagonists may be a less cost-effective treatment, depending on the physical side effects of the agonists and antagonists and the similar reported rates of pregnancy [ 22].
Increasing the duration of a study will also tend to increase the level of effect at a given dose, or decrease the dose required to reveal a given effect (Batke et al., 2011), but will also tend to introduce age related pathologies that may complicate or confound interpretation and is generally a less cost-effective strategy than using higher doses over a shorter period.
But it's hard to think of a less cost-effective way to help the economy than giving money to people who already have plenty, and aren't likely to spend a windfall.
In the last scenario, however, where the two values were directly compared against one another, a vast majority (83%) of those who responded to this question, opted to treat patient B, who was severely ill but required a less cost-effective intervention.
45 Another disadvantage is that HbA1c screening has been found to be less cost-effective than a 2-hour OGTT, a 1-hour glucose challenge test, or random glucose testing.
Third, prophylaxis of PONV is likely to be less cost-effective than treatment of established symptoms [ 6].
The reason for this -- as the legislators in my state will attest -- is that it's a lot less cost effective for states to implement their own approaches in 2017 if they also have to pay to implement the federally mandated approach in 2014.
25, 26 A disadvantage of universal screening in colorectal or endometrial cancer cases is that it may be less cost-effective compared with having an age-of-diagnosis cut-off.
This measure was a much less cost effective, but far safer than the other measures, since the child was picked up at home by a small vehicle, e.g., a taxi.
