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- noun The characteristic of being
cost-effective .
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The bids overall were falling short of the district's expectations for long-term cost-effectiveness, Rounds said.
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The bids overall were falling short of the district's expectations for long-term cost-effectiveness, Rounds said.
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The bids overall were falling short of the district’s expectations for long-term cost-effectiveness, Rounds said.
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The bids overall were falling short of the district’s expectations for long-term cost-effectiveness, Rounds said.
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Evaluations of the cost-effectiveness and distributional impacts of such interventions are even fewer and narrower in terms of numbers of options considered.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » OECD: Don’t Place All Your Bets on Obesity Prevention 2009
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Nevertheless, for anyone, who remains skeptical despite the rapidly accumulating data on the safety, success and cost-effectiveness of obesity surgery, I would like to refer you to the latest systematic review on this subject, just published in Health Technology Assessment.
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For morbid obesity, incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) (base case) ranged between 2000 pounds and 4000 pounds per Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY) gained and remained within the range regarded as cost-effective from an NHS decision-making perspective even when assumptions for deterministic sensitivity analysis were changed.
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The cost-effectiveness profiles of such interventions may be favourable in the long-term, but remain unfavourable for several decades at the start of the interventions.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » OECD: Don’t Place All Your Bets on Obesity Prevention 2009
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Most of the preventive interventions evaluated as part of the project have favourable cost-effectiveness ratios, relative to a scenario in which no systematic prevention is undertaken and chronic diseases are treated once they emerge.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » OECD: Don’t Place All Your Bets on Obesity Prevention 2009
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Obviously, cost-effectiveness analyses would also need to establish the cost/benefit ratio for what is still a very expensive technology.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Will Fat Biopsies Predict Treatment Response? 2009
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