Companies worldwide have established research centers in India to take advantage of this brainpower, and not just because of the recognized cost advantages.
And pay it some tribute; body parts that may give us the willies are in much of the world considered delicacies, perhaps in part because of the recognized cost involved.
Although hospital-based outpatient quick diagnosis units (QDU) are an increasingly recognized cost-effective alternative to hospitalization for the diagnosis of potentially serious diseases, patient perception of their quality of care has not been evaluated well enough.
As for financial sustainability, although deemed too expensive, most specialists advocated NHS support of PrEP costs to ensure equity of access, consistently with other studies where healthcare providers recognized cost as a major barrier for patients [ 13], and wished public programmes to pay for PrEP if patients cannot afford it [ 15].
"I recognize costs are going up and they want to ensure that their program is valuable," he said, though he noted that he wishes there were "more gradual changes in point structures and redemptions".
Further studies are warranted to evaluate novel monitoring strategies that minimize resistance, maximize positive clinical outcomes, recognizing cost constraints faced by programs challenged by ever increasing numbers needing HIV treatment.
The base-case scenario provided recognized the costs of PED to be higher than the costs for endovascular parent vessel occlusion, neurosurgical parent vessel occlusion, neurosurgical clipping and conservative management.
Maybe, but as Mr. Coase himself also recognized, transaction costs are often prohibitive, and in such cases all bets regarding free-market efficiency are off.
The participants recognized that "costs will be a barrier when we make a change".
Although their usefulness is increasingly recognized, the costs and organizational issues of parenting programmes, particularly when based on planned home visitation, may make their implementation difficult [ 11– 13].
