Ultrasound is a relatively cost-effective modality that is safe.
We retrospectively analyzed the outcome of AKI using PD as a cost-effective modality for AKI patients with myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock and cardiac dysrythmias.
It is evident that social support has much unrealized potential as both an effective and cost-effective modality in the war against the epidemic of type II diabetes.
FDG PET may be a cost-effective modality as it may identify second primary lung tumours at an early and curable stage (stage I IIIA) in a non-invasive way.
The study results are of use in future economic evaluation studies in the UMMC to help identify the most cost-effective modality of treatment for specific diseases as well as in the determination of cost weights for case-mix hospital reimbursement system in a major academic teaching hospital.
In addition, CAPD (£15 570 mean annual cost) is widely recognised to be the most cost-effective modality of RRT, followed by HHD (£20 764) and APD (£21 655), compared with either satellite (£32 669 -based or hospital (£35 023)-based haemodialysis.
The aim of this trial is to test the hypothesis that MEBO substantially reduces the time of wound healing and is the more cost effective treatment modality for the local treatment of partial thickness burns compared to the standard practice.
Art and brief therapies may be cost effective and time efficient treatment modalities for psychosis.
To date, there is no reliable evidence, that a surveillance program, with imaging modalities, is cost effective in colorectal cancer patients [ 42].
Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) is a reliable, cost effective, patient-friendly and safe imaging modality used as a complement to other diagnostic methods in rheumatology [ 4- 6].
