But in a statement the Ministry of Defence confirmed that it's now "reviewing all programmes, including elements of the carrier strike programme, to validate costs and ensure risks are properly managed".
KnowMyMeds enables healthcare practitioners to perform clinically validated, cost-effective medication review for high-risk patients, including "dual eligibles" and the chronically ill, to reduce their drug-related hospitalizations and re-admissions.
We focused specifically on the case of a cost function that is inspired by a previously experimentally validated cost-benefit model [ 25].
The model has previously undergone peer-review [ 11, 12] and health technology assessments [ 31] and in terms of structure is very similar to a previously developed and validated cost-effectiveness model [ 32, 33].
Recent work has highlighted the important need to validate OOP expenditure and the lack of a gold standard for measures of these costs, 22 and the difficulties in validating such costs.
Resource utilisation will be converted to costs using nationally validated unit costs, for staff time [ 13], and information from local financial managers for expenditure on travel and consumable items.
By validating the cost of clustering for different qualitatively or quantitatively characteristics, its usefulness can be specified.
Receipts, hospital and insurance cost records will also be sourced, where available, from participants to validate reported costs.
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Our calculation of the costs of LBP is thus entirely based on the responses to the main questionnaire, and the responses to the weekly pain diary and the bi-monthly cost diary were only used to validate these cost estimates and to determine the average cost of pain medications.
