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However, magnetic resonance imaging has the drawback of a long image acquisition time and high cost of examination.
The rationale for offering a free exam was to remove a frequently identified barrier among these participants, namely cost of examination [ 7].
Since the introduction of CT, in the early 1970s, and MRI, in the early 1980s, radiologists have been demanding ever more powerful machines to improve the quality of images and reduce the time and cost of examinations.
In addition, the accurate measurement of time is indispensable to determine the actual cost of examinations.
Moreover, in the case of rosuvastatin, the cost of drugs accounted for 53.8% of the total cost, followed by the cost of examinations (14.3%), cost of death (13.3%), cost of stroke (11.1%), and cost of acute myocardial infarction (7.5%).
In the case of rosuvastatin, the cost of drugs accounted for 59.2% of the total cost, followed by the cost of examinations at 15.8% and the cost of death at 11.9%.
Four cost drivers were extracted: cost of outpatient and inpatient examinations in the ward, cost of examinations in intensive care units (ICUs), cost of treatment and other costs (including medical consumables, charge for sickbed, general care services, check-up fee, etc).
In the atorvastatin arm, the cost of drugs accounted for 54.5% of total cost followed by the cost of examinations (14.5%), the cost of death (12.2%), the cost of acute myocardial infarction (10.2%), and finally the cost of stroke at 8.6%.
In the atorvastatin arm, the cost of drugs accounted for 46.6% of the total cost, followed by the cost of acute myocardial infarction at 17.1%, the cost of death at 13.7%, and the cost of examinations and stroke at 12.5% and 10.2%, respectively.
