However, the distribution of the measures of resource utilization, such as average length of stay, hours in intensive care, and resource intensity weights in Ontario Lead Trauma Hospitals, suggests that facilities differ in patient case mix.
First, exploratory models (regression trees and spline models) were used to identify influential cost factors, such as resource intensity weights, age, hours in intensive care, and length of stay.
For instance, average hours in intensive care ranged from 62 to 153 across facilities, average resource intensity weight varied from 3.2 to 4.7, and average length of stay ranged from 11 to 18 days.
This involves companies including Tesco, Sainsbury's and Unilever pledging to reduce the resource intensity of the UK's food and drink sector by 20% over the next nine years.
Teaching hospitals have not been included because they might have greater resource intensity and higher costs per case.
An intervention arm has a TDM strategy in which patients' hypertension control at baseline, 6, and 12 months determines the resource intensity of disease management.
It is also consistent with the higher natural resource intensity in emerging partners compared with advanced economies and Sub-Saharan Africa's natural resources abundance.
In the face of different data sources and even data scarcity, alternative methods based on linear programming and quadratic programming algorithms for calculating the resource intensity factors are designed.
Their resource intensity is far higher and their pollution damage often greater.
Similarly, the marketing of "all-natural" or organic products often highlights the health aspects while ignoring the reality of resource intensity.
We need to start thinking about the future of food today that doesn't involve the resource intensity of raising animals tomorrow.
