These analyses were done with a view to aiding decision-making and service planning, and intended to complement the cost-effectiveness analyses.
Specifically, we complement the transaction cost model of contract duration by developing resource-based hypotheses to explain the knowledge leverage function of contract duration.
Moreover, some of these apparently discretionary funds must be spent on inputs that complement the fixed costs represented by the salaries – medical consumables and utilities in particular.
Our study added another WTP per QALY value specifically for life-saving treatments, which would complement the current cost-effectiveness threshold used in Thailand and optimise patient access to innovative treatments or technologies.
The findings presented here complement the previously published cost model for data collection phase costs [ 10] by reporting the empirical costs for the post-collection data processing phase of the same data set.
Table 3 introduces main provider payment methods used in the three cities, and other key measures adopted to complement the effort of cost control.
Complementing the direct costing study, Rispel and Moorman (17) examine the direct and indirect costs of agency nurses, as well as the advantages and the problems associated with agency nurse utilisation in two public sector hospitals in South Africa.
We would have liked to use an assessment of cell viability to complement our study but the cost of confocal or fluorescent microscopy was well outside our study grant.
"While Australia could achieve the minimum 5% target through domestic reductions alone, using international reductions to complement domestic reductions could lower the cost of achieving Australia's emissions reduction goals, and make stronger targets more affordable," the authority says.
A practical means of dealing with such complete uncertainty is to complement the use of a cost-benefit criterion based purely upon monetary valuation with a safe minimum standards decision rule (discussed below).
They tend to have low start-up costs and complement the big chains rather than competing with them.
