Sentence examples for most expensive strategy from inspiring English sources

The most expensive strategy was annual G-FOBT costing $2853 more compared to no screening.

Thus hydrological separation, the strategy identified with high certainty as the most effective strategy, is also likely to be the most expensive strategy, at least in initial expenditures.

Under the base case assumptions the endoscopically placed WC strategy was the most expensive strategy at $1475 per patient whereas the standard ESM + SC was the least costly at $906 per patient.

Incremental cost-effectiveness results are summarized in Table 3. Changes in costs and QALYs were calculated using comparisons to the next most expensive strategy, as well as to the common baseline of the strategy incorporating glyburide as second-line therapy.

The performance of alternative strategies was measured using the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio, which is defined as the additional cost of a specific strategy, divided by its additional benefit compared with the next-most-expensive strategy.

Although first-line lopinavir/ritonavir was the most expensive ART strategy initially ($1400 vs. $1510 at 1 year), it became cost-saving compared to first-line nevirapine by 8.7 years (104 months; Fig. 1, closed arrow).

The treatment for a single patient may cost as much as several hundred thousand US dollars (Beutler, 2006), thus making ERT one of the most expensive therapeutic strategies currently in use (Table 2).

The most effective and expensive strategy is vaccination combined with three lifetime screenings for all women (2.74 CC cases per 100,000 women for a cost of $303,324 for a 3-dose vaccine and $242,523 for a 2-dose vaccine).

The model was applied to hypothetic cohorts of 100,000 patients with CIN 2 and CIN 3. Results: In both analyses, cryotherapy (CRYO) was the least expensive and least effective strategy; total vaginal hysterectomy was the most expensive and most effective strategy.

There was little difference between culture-confirmed Xpert and MODS/TLA, and same-day Xpert was the most expensive and most effective strategy.

The Papanicolaou smear strategy was the most expensive; in addition, with a much higher ICER ($192 502/QALY), the Papanicolaou smear strategy was found to be not cost-effective (Table 2).