Once dominated or extended dominated strategies are excluded, the remaining strategies form the cost-effectiveness frontier, the efficient alternatives for which no alternative policy exists that result in better effects for lower costs.
Ipratropium and tiotropium formed the cost-effectiveness frontier, with tiotropium being preferred when willingness to pay (WTP) exceeded €639 per exacerbation-free month and €8,157 per QALY.
Fixed cost of providing mode changing facilities is aggregated to form the fourth cost function.
The predicted costs for each individual in each practice for 2007-8 were summed to form the predicted costs for each practice.
Sum of these costs form the multimodal network transportation cost.
Facility costs incurred by households formed the highest cost drivers (forming over 70% of all direct costs in both HIA and LIA) regardless of the government intervention of free treatment of cholera.
Treatment costs in both high and low incidence districts formed the highest cost driver for households.
As mentioned earlier, server and power/cooling costs form the biggest chunk of the total cost.
They are meaningful to patients and form the basis of cost-effectiveness pronouncements [ 14].
