In contrast to Australia, where telephone interpreter was freely accessible, healthcare providers in New Zealand had to shoulder the cost of a landline interpreting service; this resulted in a low utilisation rate of telephone interpretation support [ 67].
On the other hand, registration for the elections in November 2011 which occurred in health facilities may have driven an increase in utilisation rates in general across health zones during this time.
At the same time, a decline in utilisation has occurred in urban areas, while there was an increase in utilisation in rural areas, from an initially lower level.
The underlying theory behind Delivering Choice was that the provision of advice, information and support, whether emotional or practical (e.g. equipment, night sitters) would lead to a reduction in hospital utilisation and an increase in deaths in the community.
Bisphosphonates are useful drugs, however the dramatic rise in expenditure on detailing, followed by a rise in utilisation of risedronate could suggest that adverse publicity triggered a marketing response.
Extension of this fermentation scheme to sugarcane bagasse hydrolysate resulted in a complete sugar utilisation within 26 h; ethanol production peaked at 40 h with a yield of 0.49 g/g.
Though SWP offers more flexibility like multiple throughputs, their hardware complexity increases with an increase in multiplexer utilisation for implementing a signed multiplication algorithm like modified booth (MB).
To give a quantitative idea about this relatively low impact, it is not uncommon to find [ 30] that a one percentage increase in patient charges tends to lead to a reduction in utilisation of merely 0.2%.
In this study the presence of a discontinuity in utilisation and out-of-pocket health expenditure at the eligibility threshold is tested using parametric regression analysis [12, 13].
