We plan to pilot items and collect data at a variety of institutions, in hope of making the items, resources, and statistical models more generalizable.
For each of these items, resource use was determined and multiplied by the corresponding unit prices for 2006.
One of the first things you should do when you start planning is come up with a list of items and resources you will need.
The unit costs of most items of resource use are obtained from nationally available sources [ 25, 26].
For outcome measures, estimates of specific items of resource use associated with interventions and comparators, along with their unit costs, will be extracted in natural units (eg, length of hospital stay in days, duration of operation in minutes, number of outpatient attendances, etc).
If at all possible, I'd like to build up a resource of items for use in schools (e.g., booklets/kits etc) that would be available to scientists for outreach work.I know the Wellcome Trust is launching a new scheme of grants for engaging the public in science and I'm looking into that.
Costs in all three studies were calculated as the sum of the product of the quantity of resource utilization and its associated unit cost across various items of resources.
Even though number of items and total amount of resource gained frequently correlate, sometimes this does not occur, for example when there is a large variation in the size of food items.
The totality of the content of existing PRO instruments for a specific condition provides a valuable resource (pool of items) that can be utilised to develop new instruments.
The body of evidence represented by the totality of the content of existing PRO instruments for a specific condition may provide a valuable resource (pool of items) that can be utilised to develop new PRO instruments.
