A second strategy to reduce costs and thus potentially increase cost-effectiveness is group-counselling, which was applied in several prevention programmes [ 9- 12].
Systems designed to aid clinical decision making, improve patient care, and increase cost-effectiveness are only useful if they are adopted by practitioners.
Increasing efficacy is important, and optimising cost effectiveness is crucial.
This improved cost effectiveness is primarily related to increasing exacerbation costs, because of the inclusion of the costs of production losses.
Hence, interest in cost effectiveness is likely to persist, if not increase.
"Cost effectiveness is only a factor".
"In reality, the cost effectiveness is insufficient to warrant it.
Cost and cost effectiveness is being evaluated.
Cost effectiveness is calculated excluding indirect costs.
Cost effectiveness was not proven.
We found that as the FPG threshold was lowered the population-level health benefit increased but cost-effectiveness was reduced.
