Because village-level health subcenters serve only a fraction of the population in each state, we included supplementation costs for all areas currently served by health subcenters [40] as well as the additional costs of supplementing children in areas currently lacking subcenter coverage, which would require additional resources for delivery [22].
In designing a trial of nutrition supplementation, costs should be balanced against reasonable assumptions about the anticipated effects.
Between 250,000 and 500,000 children are still blinded each year by Vitamin A deficiency, a syndrome easily prevented by oral supplementation costing just a few cents.
As supplementation costs were more than completely offset by cost savings to the hospital, glutamine supplementation is said to 'dominate' standard, non-supplemented PN, as it provides better quality of health care for less cost.
We will assess whether the use of folic acid supplementation is cost-effective by estimating the incremental cost-utility and cost-effectiveness ratios of antidepressant drug plus folic acid, relative to antidepressant drug alone.
A 6-month supplementation program was potentially cost effective in comparison to standard treatment in all categories of clinical malnutrition, but the permitted supplement costs were markedly lower for patients with higher pre-treatment BMI.
In industrial wastewater treatment process design, supplementation of cost-effective dosing substrate has become an important criteria.
Supplementation is: Cost-effective Safe Sustainable Easily implemented on a national scale Can be carried out for many years Supplementation using vitamin A capsules should begin at six months old in areas where children do not get enough vitamin A in their diets.
Supplementation was more cost-effective (cost-effectiveness ratio (CER)=€35 165 per patient discharged alive) than standard, non-supplemented PN (CER=€40 156 per patient discharged alive), and it resulted in mean cost savings of €4991 per patient discharged alive or €1047 per patient admitted to the hospital.
For exocrine insufficiency, treatment with pancreatic enzyme supplementations was costed for 79 months in patients whose insufficiency persisted (endoscopy 74%; surgery 63%), and for 39.5 months in patients whose insufficiency developed (endoscopy 26%; surgery 26%) or resolved (endoscopy 0%; surgery 11%).
Conclusion: This analysis suggests that the supplementation strategy is cost saving.
