Designs that will integrate with and translate readily into routine care, that are effective, cost-effective, acceptable to all stakeholders and that are feasible are particularly important in the context of currently overstretched postnatal and maternity care services.
As noted above, there is an urgent need to develop treatments which are simple, efficacious, cost-effective, acceptable to patients and that have the potential to be widely applied.
Although there is little evidence about the role of telephone assessment in the context of physiotherapy, research on the use of telephone triage systems in other clinical settings has shown that it is safe, clinically accurate, cost-effective, acceptable to patients, and reduces the workload of clinicians [ 4- 7].
They must be efficient, cost effective, and acceptable to regulators.
In addition, they have to be cost effective and acceptable to society, patients and health-care providers.
This information will be used to determine which combination of ATs has the greatest probability of significantly improving upper limb rehabilitation following stroke, is cost effective and acceptable for use by patients and in health services.
From previous cost reports, a cut of value of $100,000 for reducing one death seems cost effective and therefore acceptable [44].
This study aims to determine whether a peer support programme for patients with type 2 diabetes improves biophysical and psychosocial outcomes and whether it is an acceptable, cost effective intervention in the primary care setting.
First trimester screening (NT, PAPP-A, and hCG) is an acceptable, cost effective approach for DS risk screening for women if they present early in pregnancy (before 14 weeks' gestation).
This study will evaluate whether a peer support programme for patients with type 2 diabetes improves biophysical and psychosocial outcomes and whether it is an acceptable, cost effective intervention in the primary care setting.
To determine whether a peer support programme for patients with type 2 diabetes improves biophysical and psychosocial outcomes and whether it is an acceptable, cost effective intervention in the primary care setting The study is a cluster randomised controlled trial where general practices are allocated into one of two groups: 1.
