Their medical fragility and resource-intensive needs put them at greater risk for inadequate transitions from hospital to home-based care, and subsequent adverse outcomes and hospital re-admissions.
However, this task is both resource intensive (e.g., need to develop health states scenarios) and time intensive (e.g., 20-30 minutes for each individual face-to-face interview) compared to pre-existing questionnaire (3-7 minutes for the EQ-5D or HUI questionnaires).
In spite of the impressive advances in high performance computations, phase-field simulations for most practical problems in materials design are resource intensive because of the need to incorporate multiple physical fields over large-scale three-dimensional domains.
Additionally, due to the nature of inpatient, multi-faceted and multi disciplinary clinical interventions required, healthcare for this group is resource intensive further heightening the need for accurate and meaningful evaluation of effect.
But education focusing on individual attributes and needs is resource intensive and requires dedicated educators.
It is therefore essential to prevent childhood caries before the subsequent need of resource intensive clinical interventions and treatments.
Such decision aids may help to identify patients in need of resource intensive post-hospital interventions and therefore lead to improvements in real-time decision making at the point of care.
5 Providers can act to reduce costs in various ways: by increasing the efficiency with which they use resources to provide care, by selecting patients who need less resource intensive care, or by reducing the level of resources in the provision of care, which has a lowering effect on the quality of the patients' care.
19 20 37 40 Use of the H-PEPSS (1) is not resource intensive and (2) obviates the need to address the numerous challenges inherent in trying to measure the impact of curricular change on more distal outcomes such as provider behaviour or change in patient outcomes.
Our experience exposes some of the challenges: recruitment to the trial was time consuming and resource intensive, most notably in accommodating the needs of physically and cognitively impaired older people.
The challenges are especially large in resource intensive industries, where huge investments are needed to develop new products.
