If the patient is hemodynamically unstable and the exam suggests cardiac tamponade, ultrasound can be used to guide pericardiocentesis, which might be life saving [4].
Equating money with human life, they conclude that a life saved today should count twice as much, in dollar terms, as a life saved 10 years from now; a life saved a century from now scarcely counts at all.
Including stillbirths in the total number of lives saved would have a greater impact on the overall burden and a decreased cost per life saved (14).
The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio resulted in an extra cost of €4355 per life saved (30-day mortality) and €495 per QALY.
Assuming that $A40 $422) is spent per person per year on a dark chocolate prevention strategy in this population, the strategy would be cost effective (based on the commonly accepted, albeit arbitrary, threshold of $50 000 per years of life saved 25).
It is argued that decisions made on the basis of such research evidence can be not only cost saving [ 5], but also life saving [ 1].
Grant to reach 1 million children with life saving interventions 10 June 2013, Addis Ababa – As evidence of its commitment to partnership and the children of Ethiopia, the Government of Japan, today, announced a major grant of US$11 million to UNICEF.
To understand the determinants for health we need to look for other classes of determinants than the determinants of ill health [ 18] as focusing on health will be cost and life saving [ 19].
On the one hand, patients who delay with symptoms caused by life threatening conditions (like heart disease and cancer) can miss out on life saving treatments [ 4, 5].
Furthermore, several studies applying plausibility designs have shown rather convincing evidence of the impact of SMS reporting on the facility stock-outs for life saving therapies [ 12, 13].
A notable example is the use of activated protein C (dotrecogin alpha), which appeared to be effective only in patients with very severe sepsis but which costs US $160,000.00 per life saved [ 25, 26].
