In addition, welfare benefits are difficult to obtain; nursing homes are scarce and not a viable option for ex-convicts.
While the main reported benefit of IMRT is reduction of xerostomia 25, 28, this benefit was difficult to confirm in our series as we only observed three cases of grade 3 late xerostomia.
It added that the Department for Work and Pensions faced an "escalating problem", accepting that housing benefit was "difficult" to administer.
The benefit is "difficult to detect with a high level of certainty," admits NCAB chair Barbara Rimer, a behavioral scientist at Duke University, but she adds that universal screening is "scientifically defensible".
Nevertheless, the net clinical benefit remains difficult to assess knowing that these scores predict events of varying severity and therefore remain difficult to compare for each individual case.
Whereas exercise may contribute to preserving lung function, its benefit is difficult to ascertain given the selection bias of healthier patients being more predisposed to exercise.
Community benefit, while difficult to quantify, typically encompasses a range of activities including provision of care to the uninsured, community outreach activities, research, and teaching [ 36, 18, 38].
The magnitude of economic benefit is difficult to quantify, due to uncertainty of prevalence estimates and continued advances in therapy leading to ongoing improvements in SVR rates but owing to the high cost, even a small reduction in the incidence of HCC would have considerable economic implications.
