This non-invasive technique, which is standardly available in pre-surgically staged lung cancer patients, may increase cost-effectiveness due to less cumbersome diagnostic procedures and more efficient identification of potentially curable second primary cancer patients.
The additional measurement of serum parameters only in patients identified by this algorithm to be at high risk may increase cost-effectiveness in comparison to a concept of primary serum parameter measurement in all patients.
However, this additional factor may increase costs.
This may be the greatest contribution to increased cost effectiveness of such a strategy.
It also has the potential to increase cost-effectiveness.
This could imply that personalized preventive medicine based on individuals' genetic profiles, while strictly protecting privacy, may be helpful in increasing cost-effectiveness and efficiency to promote healthy aging [ 58].
This program is based on the assumption that stepping up from lower, less intensive to higher, more intensive levels of preventive activities, based on monitoring outcomes, may increase the (cost) effectiveness of the programme and maximize efficiency of resource allocation [ 23- 25].
Therefore, screening patients less frequently may increase the cost-effectiveness of diabetic eye screening programs.
Moreover, determination of a limited number of polymorphic loci can provide sufficient discriminative power for a given local population and may increase the cost-effectiveness of molecular typing.
Strong primary care may improve health outcomes, increase cost-effectiveness, and promote social equity [ 14].
Thus, jail policies that increase access to condoms, including making them available at intake to the K6G unit, may increase the effectiveness and the cost-savings obtainable from condom distribution programs.
