As many modernising changes began before the start of the evaluation we could not specify costs at the level of precision normally possible in prospective monitoring of resource use in economic evaluations alongside clinical trials.
Therefore, it is a common unit of resource use for the evaluation of health care policies and interventions [ 7].
Unit costs (£, 2007 2008 prices) collected from primary and secondary sources in accordance with guidelines for costing healthcare services as part of economic evaluation 15 were attached to each item of resource use.
Resource data will be collected for an economic evaluation using the Client Receipt of Service Inventory (CSRI) which is a comprehensive inventory of resource use that has been widely used in economic evaluations of mental health interventions [ 24].
The collection of resource use data is a prerequisite for these evaluations.
Estimates of resource use and costs will take into account the costs of implementation of the new model, but will not include costs of the evaluation/audit.
TechnoGIN, the tool described in this paper, integrates systems analytical and expert knowledge and different types of agronomic data enabling the assessment of inputs and outputs of a broad range of cropping systems and the evaluation of their resource use efficiencies.
As with full economic evaluation, the quantities of resources used, prices (unit costs), and sources of prices were not reported by most of the studies.
