It is difficult to isolate costs for heart failure.
Velvet's life upstate is a genuine refuge, but it doesn't come free from isolating cost.
The ABC method assisted in isolating costs of the RUSF component from costs of the overarching FA program, enabling an analysis of incremental costs of the RUSF component.
Evaluating the economic impact in individual cases, and the health system in general, is challenging due to difficulty isolating costs directly attributable to hyponatremia versus those only associated with underlying diseases.
No limit was set on isolation capacity and it was assumed that all identified carriers were isolated, with corresponding isolation costs.
To isolate the cost of DFU from other types of wound care, the costs for home care and LTC were estimated for cases that only had a stasis ulcer (which includes DFU) and excluded cases that required wound care for pressure ulcers and other types of skin conditions (e.g. burns, cutaneous lesions other than ulcers, skin tears or cuts, surgical wounds, corns/callouses/structural/fungi).
It's a neat approach which allows them, among other things, to isolate the cost of recessions by computing the aggregate GDP loss relative to trend.
Thus, attempts to isolate the cost of progression from other complications of diabetes and hypertension could result in unrealistic estimates.
The data also include a range of demographic variables, coexisting conditions and cognitive impairment that can be included to isolate the costs associated with agitation.
Use of health and social services among people with AD who are agitated may be affected by the extent of cognitive decline, demographic factors and comorbidities; to isolate the costs associated with agitation, we ran analyses adjusting for these factors.
