Cardiac catheterization is one of the most commonly performed invasive diagnostic procedures, yet it is also a procedure for which there is tremendous variation in utilization across countries and across jurisdictions within countries [ 1- 5].
Demand for plasma and plasma-derived products such as coagulation factors, albumin, and immunoglobulins increases worldwide mainly due to new indications and an increased utilization in countries as they become more developed.
The Philippines has the highest percentage in 1983 of antibiotic utilization among countries (including USA, Japan, United Kingdom) surveyed (>25%).
However, it is difficult to compare surveys of CAM utilization among countries because the extension of specific CAM methods is tightly linked to the traditional and cultural background of a country.
A desk review is conducted on the education, regulation, scopes of practice, specialization, nomenclature, retention and cost-effectiveness of substitute health workers in terms of their utilization in countries such as Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Ghana etc., using curricula, evaluations and key-informant questionnaires.
Utilization requires country-specific directories of place names and programming effort (Salentin, 2007).
For both prevalence and treatment utilization, considerable country variations were observed.
A particular thermo dynamical system is the society of a country, while the energy utilization of a country can be assessed using exergy analysis to gain insights into its efficiency and potential for improvements.
It may be concluded that the models proposed can be used as an alternative solution and estimation techniques to available estimation techniques in predicting the future energy utilization values of countries.
A comparison of intensity of triptan utilization in different countries cannot be performed considering the number of triptan packages, because triptan packages may contain different number of doses depending on marketing policies.
