The barriers (e.g. technical knowledge gaps, outstanding legislative issues, lack of financial incentive) can in principle be tackled to make the design, construction and operation of a CO2 pipeline network possible, but could sometimes lead to somewhat higher costs.
Three patients had somewhat higher costs than the rest and of these; two had severe aphasia and severe physical disability, and one severe physical disability and cognitive deficit.
Presenteeism led to somewhat higher costs than absenteeism, ranging from an average of €50/week per employed patient in the UK to €251 in Sweden.
The current updated pharmacoeconomic analysis uses a longer length of hospital stay, resulting in somewhat higher costs per patient for both standard and glutamine-supplemented PN than in the previous study.
It offers V-8 performance well in excess of two-seaters like the Audi TT and BMW Z4 (though at a somewhat higher price), yet undercuts the cost of less well-rounded, more powerful offerings like the Dodge Viper SRT-10.
Supported employment is associated with a somewhat higher total cost but also results in higher numbers of weeks in employment and QALYs compared with standard care.
The utilization of personnel, estimated in Eid-Kocht's study by patients themselves during one representative month in 2006, showed somewhat higher staff costs than in our study.
Somewhat surprisingly, the higher cost of virtual links mapped across inter-domain paths is not apparent here.
The data show that while drug acquisition costs are somewhat higher for capecitabine, the costs of managing toxicity are broadly similar and the cost of delivering capecitabine is significantly less than that of fluorouracil due to considerable savings in pharmacy and chemotherapy nursing resources.
