And children are the least expensive and most cost-effective group to cover.
Interventions are required that can be accessed by all people (including those with communication difficulties) and that can be provided in cost-effective group settings.
This is consistent with previous research showing that individually based interventions can successfully reduce the risk factors associated with type 2 diabetes (3– 6); but in this case, the intervention was a more cost-effective group program.
Both evaluations indicate that in order to be cost-effective group-based exercise programs need to target sections of the older community-dwelling population.
Group interventions are attractive for clinical delivery as they are cost effective, thus group interventions were recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE] as the first line psychological treatment.
Bootstrap simulations will be used to estimate cost effectiveness acceptability, net benefit statistics and the likelihood that group psycho-education is cost effective compared to group support.
Meyers et al.[ 14 ] performed a cost analysis study in patients with stage 1 disease, and found 5.6% had unsuspected N2 disease, and that mediastinoscopy was not cost effective in this group.
Similarly, within this study we did not evaluate the provision of group exercise programmes, which others have shown to be effective, 3 and it might be that, because of economies of scale, it is more cost effective to use group based exercise classes rather than undertake one to one healthcare professional visits.
Alternatively, consider a fractional ownership program which can be more cost effective for a group of travellers than buying full fare first class tickets.
Pre-emptive fluconazole therapy for positive serum cryptococcal antigen in patients with human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) to prevent the development of cryptococcal meningitis is also regarded as cost effective for specific groups [ 3].
The main objective of this trial is to determine whether curriculum based group psychoeducation is more clinically and cost effective than unstructured peer group support.
