But instead of debating the rationale of such cost, under the current climate the best that can be hoped for is to trim away some of the excess fat, which, in political speak, invariably means reducing the number of appeals for those convicted.
The rationale for cost-of-illness studies is the contribution to health care planning by providing information on costs for managing patients with a specific disease.
Michael Pistorio, Des Plaines, Ill.: While I completely agree that it is a travesty for Americans to be devoid of a national health care solution, I question the rationale of comparing the costs of an American system to that of a foreign system.
The results of cost effectiveness analysis provide a rationale to enhance the efficiency of resource allocation.
The number of genes included is determined both by scientific rationale and cost, and by definition, represent only a subset of gene expression information.
This paper aims to describe the rationale behind multilayer traffic engineering, demonstrate its feasibility and quantify its advantages in terms of cost effectiveness.
However, the issue of cost and state deficits was successfully leveraged to provide a superficially plausible rationale for the transition to workfare regimes.
Figure 1 illustrates the rationale behind the costing model developed, and the table in Additional file 1 is the summary of cost components and sub-components identified and sources of information.
It is time for the U.S. to examine the rationale, effectiveness, and cost of an exclusively military response to the threat of radical Islamic terrorism in Africa.
The approach has been criticized for not being consistent with the basic rationale of the economic calculus used in cost-benefit-analysis, i.e. the potential Pareto optimality; and the fact that people value prevention of premature death, morbidity and debility per se rather than their concern to preserve productive resources and maintain future levels of GNP, among others [ 21].
