Inadequate cost-effective considerations.
Arguments against the use of blood cultures in these settings based on poor cost effectiveness, however, have to be balanced against the risk of using excessively broad or inadequate empiric treatment.
Our study found that most non-tertiary non-CPAP-trial hospitals that provided CPAP support treated relatively few neonates in 2007-2008; and this may be inadequate to ensure safety and cost-effectiveness of the intervention.
Failing to recognize them entails highly negative repercussions on research and clinical practice, with inadequate patient management and lack of cost-effectiveness.
Furthermore, cost-effectiveness analyses may be inadequate because they do not take into consideration all factors, particularly indirect costs including loss of work for patients or carers due to INR clinic visits and associated travel costs.
A recent systematic review concluded that there was inadequate evidence to determine the clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of low-intensity psychological interventions to prevent relapse or recurrence of depression (72).
Due to methodological weaknesses (i.e. only average cost-effectiveness ratios, small sample sizes, short time horizons, inadequate treatment of uncertainty), the quality of the evidence was considered limited.
Khalid and coworkers reported that when the cost of surgery increases, USG-FNA becomes more cost-effective [ 19]. n: total number of nodules, P-FNA: palpation-guided thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy, Inadequate: inadequate rate, USG-FNA: ultrasound-guided thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy, ICER: incremental cost-effectiveness ratio.
Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) seems an efficient therapy for acute, potentially reversible cardiac or respiratory failure, when conventional therapy has been inadequate, or as bridge to transplant, but there is no evidence for cost-effectiveness.
Based on cost-effectiveness, NICE recommends rituximab plus MTX, in anti-TNF inadequate responders [ 1].
