Sentence examples for lowest cost-effectiveness from inspiring English sources

Results: Otoacoustic emissions testing at birth followed by repeat testing at follow up demonstrated the lowest cost ($13 per infant) and had the lowest cost-effectiveness ratio ($5100 per infant with hearing loss identified).

Doubling the cost of tight glycemic control (i.e., increasing the cost of treating active diabetes) produces the lowest or second lowest cost-effectiveness ratio in each analysis population.

The 30 countries with the lowest cost-effectiveness estimates are geographically more diverse and include only three in sub-Saharan Africa (Swaziland, South Africa and Namibia).

This entails utilising a process consisting of selecting first the intervention with the lowest cost-effectiveness ratio and then calculating the total costs of averting this health problem.

Among the interventions with the lowest cost-effectiveness ratios, curative treatment at health centres and hospital outpatient departments of pneumonia, severe diarrhoeal diseases, peptic ulcer, dysentery, malaria, trachoma, schistosomiasis haematobium and glaucoma were identified.

The subsequent step chooses the intervention with the second lowest cost-effectiveness ratio and also calculating the total costs of averting this health problem and so on until the budget is exhausted.

Besides homeopathy, the plans highlight 17 other items that will no longer be available on prescription for reasons ranging from low clinical effectiveness to low cost-effectiveness.

Instead they will expand their tiered formularies so that patients who want very expensive products of low cost-effectiveness will pay a large part, but not all, of the cost.

Ordering too many tests poses significant danger, not only because of low cost-effectiveness but also because a falsely abnormal test result requires a further series of tests to prove or disprove its accuracy.

In his book, Breaking the Vicious Circle, supreme court justice Steven Breyer cites the low cost-effectiveness of the EPA's ban of asbestos pipe, shingles, coating and paper, which the most optimistic estimates suggested would prevent seven or eight premature deaths over 13 years – at a cost of approximately $250m.

Major conclusions are that the highest cost-effectiveness can be achieved by combining measures; freight rolling stock has a high cost-effectiveness on its own as well as in combination with other measures, especially when combined with track measures; noise barriers, in particular high ones, have a low cost-effectiveness.