Or does society's penchant for valuing comfort at any cost influence scientific inquiry?
The method used to determine launch cost influences the accuracy of the estimate.
But he warned carmakers now faced "uncertainty, economic instability and an undoubted impact in terms of cost, influence and ease of business".
Since labour cost influences the operating cost at a slow rate, the variation in all trends of operating cost, revenue and net present value is marginal.
Penicillin V, the recommended antimicrobial for pharyngitis was never prescribed, despite its safety, efficacy, narrow spectrum and low cost, even though cost influenced GPs' prescribing.
Some simple associations provided modest support for that idea, but just how does housing cost influence fertility, if it does, and what are the underlying processes?
One centre was convinced that the Trust was losing money on frequent dialysis but refused to let cost influence the quality of patient care.
None of the HTA agencies included intangible costs in the denominator, reflecting that this cost type is seldom used because of methodological difficulties (the same cost influences the numerator as well as the denominator in the analysis).
However, it is not clear how cost influences the dentist in decision-making, for example, dentists may offer different treatments based on affordability to the patient or dentists may have a vested financial interest in selling more costly treatments.
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