The inclusion of productivity losses in such analyses would have a significant influence on determinations of cost-effectiveness, leading to different resource allocation decisions.
The aim of this paper is to examine the equivocality that surrounds the determination of cost performance of LRT projects.
The determination of cost was affected mainly by the drug prices and the dosage schedules.
Other parameters, such as the cost of other components or the utility values, had less impact on determination of cost per QALY.
The cost analysis includes both direct and indirect costs, from a society perspective, and consist of two main components: determination of volumes of care and determination of cost prices for each volume of consumption.
The determination of cost of business and mark-up at manufacturer and wholesale level would provide a more comprehensive view of the market, but we had no access to such data.
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.
The determination of cost-effect was based on the viscosity and IFT performance of the surfactant.
In the formulation of models, the optimal determination of costs often emerged in computations.
Although prospective determination of costs would be more appropriate for this type of studies [51], only was retrospective data available in the Escala Study; therefore, limitations derived from the availability of data should be considered.
For a more comprehensive determination of cost-effectiveness from the societal perspective, more data is needed on the value of averted infections in terms of the additional survival, quality of life and the costs of MRSA infection, during hospital stay as well as after discharge.
