The complementary cost analysis based on TISS points (S7, Table 3) indicated a difference of €1,448 (at €40 per point) and €1,782 (at €50 per point, S7b) in median ICU costs, favoring dexmedetomidine over pooled standard care (details in Additional file 8: Table S6).
As principal variable, the total cost was obtained for the health care system during the periods of participation in the CT and during the control period as the secondary variables were cost per complementary tests, cost per consultation and cost per anti-asthma drugs.
For all resource items except non-AM complementary therapies, costs were calculated by multiplying resource use by the unit cost for the respective item.
And this is a complementary service, costs covered by the nation's taxpayers.
However, increasing the size of the federated cloud network may have a significant infrastructure cost: the proposed model can help in finding a good cost/performance trade-off, given that a complementary infrastructure cost model is devised.
Furthermore, cost reductions changed very little about the traditional service concept except for the elimination of service components in complementary low-cost packages.
Functional tests could be considered a valuable complementary low-cost clinical tool to provide quantitative data about the functional ability and performance of a body segment [ 2, 3].
The complementary inputs increase costs, so it is possible that the end result on costs may involve only slight savings, but the cost effectiveness might be greater.
With complementary roles, additional costs and resource use are expected given the added nurse practitioner position and the goal to improve outcomes.
In a complementary manner, the cost function C NoSkip, when frequency band β would be coded, is given by: C NoSkip = R NoSkip + λ D NoSkip, (4).
