Patients may relapse, be hospitalized, have a medication change, and then spend a period of time with intense use of costly resources (post-medication switch).
A potential limitation of a wider use of ECLS in refractory cardiac arrest was the fear that it might lead to the survival of patients with poor neurological recovery and the associated use of costly resources and considerable suffering for the patients and their relatives [ 28].
Apart from causing significant morbidity and mortality, the treatment for multiple organ failure requires use of limited and costly resources.
The thermal conductivity of nanotube-containing polymers offers new possibilities for their use instead of costly, resource-hungry metallic blocs of various applications, e.g., in power, electric engines and generators, and heat exchanger designs.
Efficient use of this costly resource is therefore economically desirable.
In health care systems that are limited in their ability to use costly drugs and technologies, achieving superlative performance may only be possible through a hospital culture that maximizes the impact of available resources [ 25, 26].
This means that doctors — and by extension, healthcare — have historically been scarce and costly resources.
Machine time was a precious, costly resource.
Blood is a scarce and costly resource and blood transfusion is not without risk.
Compared with standard longitudinal cohort studies, case-cohort investigations are typically less costly, use less resources, and require less time to conduct, though they entail little loss in statistical power [ 1- 3].
