These may include selecting the most least-cost inputs (e.g. using nurses instead of doctors or generics instead of brand drugs), minimising excess bed capacity, maximising the effort of staff, eradicating theft of resources, combining available resource inputs in a cost-minimising way, given their prices, and so on.
Recognising these different patterns should help identify at-risk diagnoses where quality of care can be improved in order to minimise the excess mortality associated with weekend admission.
Together with the search for the lowest possible cost, other aspects such as maximising diet efficiency in relation to proposed production objectives and minimising any excess that may lead to unacceptable damage to the environment, are other factors that are gaining in importance in the world of animal nutrition.
This effect was slightly more marked in the placebo group, and as such works to the apparent benefit of the active drug treatments in minimising any excess of adverse events over placebo.
The proposed management approach attempts to minimise the potential excess burden on resources and use a risk management strategy that identifies only the women at increased risk (i.e., those with persistent HPV infection) who have not developed dysplasia detectable by cytology.
One of the main considerations of current treatments is to maintain cure rates, while minimising exposure to excess chemotherapy, in view of the potential negative effects on fertility and future second tumour risks (Rustin et al, 1996; Bower et al, 1998).
@Burberry burned millions of dollars of clothes it didn't sell to "minimise the amount of excess stock we produce".https://t.co/HiRhTjXhGv.
Due to the symmetry of cyclic DTPA anhydride 1, the di-addition product 3 may form, which is minimised by using a large excess of cyclic DTPA anhydride 1 compared to amine 2. The reaction conditions were optimised for maximising the yield of target linker 4 by modifying a variety of parameters such as concentration and amounts of reactants.
23 This raises the question of how health professionals can best establish a vocabulary for the discussion of body weight that is precise enough and neither minimises the risks associated with excess weight nor provokes disengagement on the part of the patient.
Among the overall number of failings identified by FSA auditors in the period analysed, there were 221 major non-compliances relating to maintaining legal temperature controls, and in excess of 300 relating to minimising the risk of cross-contamination.
