Sentence examples for poor cost-effectiveness from inspiring English sources

However, fall-prevention programs that focus on strength and balance training have poor cost-effectiveness [ 18].

Thus high 'costs per child' results reflect factors like total cost, targeting and capacity utilisation, but are not necessarily synonymous with poor cost-effectiveness.

Such activities are often characterised by high coverage in selected parts of the population which are screened too frequently, coexisting with a low coverage in other population groups with less socioeconomic status, and heterogeneous quality, resulting in limited effectiveness and poor cost-effectiveness.

"There are politicians who use this politically" even as evidence about ethanol's poor cost effectiveness undermines the case for subsidies, said Schatz.

Creating Councils for a limited number of activities implies poor cost effectiveness, and creates frustration among members and volunteers when they have completed these few activities.

Arguments against the use of blood cultures in these settings based on poor cost effectiveness, however, have to be balanced against the risk of using excessively broad or inadequate empiric treatment.

Several studies that have looked at the low yield of blood cultures in a number of clinical settings and have suggested poor cost effectiveness for this test especially when the rate of positivity is low [ 3- 5, 11].

The poor cost effectiveness occurs because basic preventive measures will already have halved radon levels, thereby reducing the number of homes with measurements above any particular action level and so increasing the cost of detecting them.

More recently, the WHO "guidelines" on hand hygiene in health care [ 3] also included information on economic burden of poor hygiene, cost-effectiveness and resource implications of recommendations.

The larger the RCCT, the smaller the benefit potentially detected and the poorer the cost-effectiveness.

However, routine foreign-body detection with magnetic resonance imaging is not feasible in an emergency department workflow due to poor accessibility, low cost-effectiveness, and particularly the risk for patients with possibly ferromagnetic foreign bodies associated with the strong magnetic field [11, 12].