The EQ-5D is a well established health-utility index measure and was originally designed to complement other forms of quality of life measures.
Well established in the utilities industry, price cap regulation would set a maximum price that cigarette companies can charge for their product.
The technique for measuring it is not currently available in most clinical laboratories, and its clinical utility is not well established [ 45, 46].
Although such a cut-off approach using CT values has been well established in COPD and emphysema, its utility and limitations in ILDs should be examined in further studies.
Energy recovery within processes via heat exchanger network (HEN) to minimise the external utilities has been well established.
The diagnostic utility of BNP is not well established in critically ill patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure attributed to ALI.
For established utilities, though, this is a disaster.
Established utilities, he said, resisted what they saw as encroachment on their turf.
However, the validation of such a strategy and its utility in drug development is now well established and recommended, independent from future regulatory requirements.
The clinical utility of the technique is now well established for a number of different disease processes such as intracranial stenosis, evaluation of collateral blood flow, vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage, and brain death [ 16].
The diagnostic utility of D-dimer for PE is well established in non-pregnant, low-risk patients [5].
