To the best of our knowledge, it is the first study to project hospital utilization and costs by a large and growing resource-intensive population.
These predictors may assist in clinical decision making for this resource intensive patient population, and their reproducibility in other very long stay patient populations should be explored.
Numerical examples showed that the proposed linear programming assisted (not embedded) genetic algorithm is superior to the embedded approach and as well as to a resource intensive multi-population pure parallel genetic algorithm.
While proper clinical evaluation by an appropriately trained health professional is the best way to diagnose depression in the elderly, this is resource intensive and impractical for population screening.
Clinical assessment of mental health outcomes would be ideal but is costly and resource intensive, especially in a population surveillance system such as SAMSS.
Case management is effective but is resource intensive and difficult to deliver to a widely scattered population.
Population surveys of this size are resource intensive and we did not have the resources to extend the survey into control areas.
In summary, directly determining population exposure from exposimeter measurements is resource intensive and requires a large study size because the unit of observation is an individual.
"Reaching the at-risk populations that are currently affected is extremely resource intensive and everyone has limitations on the resources they have," said Morris from the CDC. .
Areas for intervention and improvement in rural populations are often difficult to identify, costly and resource intensive [ 21, 22].
On the other hand, direct measurements are time and resource intensive while most self-administered questionnaires are not applicable to a non-adult population.
