The trial also allowed an assessment of direct cost-effectiveness of the aftercare services.
This study aims at evaluating and comparing the clinical effectiveness and direct cost-effectiveness of aftercare services in patients with severe mental disorders with that of usual treatments.
This prospective pharmacoeconomic study evaluated the direct cost and cost effectiveness of prostaglandin/prostamide therapy for reduction of IOP in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
We also performed a direct cost-effectiveness analysis.
4 5 6 However, these have been carried out in isolation, which prevents direct comparison of the cost effectiveness of the different interventions in cancer control.
Further analysis will be undertaken to determine the overall cost effectiveness of direct measurement of HbA1c for all people in the NHS Health Check programme.
We recommend that further investigation be undertaken to determine the efficacy and cost effectiveness of direct liquid culture and the commercial line probe assay for detection of MDR-TB in an sub-Sahara African setting.
In two studies conducted in Brazil to evaluate the cost effectiveness of direct observation strategy; one reported a doubling of indirect costs to the patient compared to self-administered therapy (Mohan 2007) while the other reported an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of USD6616 per completed direct observed treatment compared to self-administered therapy (Steffen 2010).
The efficiency of diversity generation has a direct impact on the time and cost effectiveness of the screening or selection process, and ultimately, on the probability of identifying an improved variant.
In this analysis direct cost and effectiveness of intermittent etanercept were compared with direct cost and effectiveness of nonsystemic therapy.
Cost effectiveness of the intervention; where costs include the direct and indirect costs incurred by patients, and costs to the health system of providing and administering the incentives.
