Healthcare failure mode and effects analysis and cost‑minimization analysis of three pharmaceutical services by Álvaro Caballero-Romero, Sergio Fernández, Ana Belén Morillo, Mariana Zaragoza-Rascón, Catalina Jaramillo-Pérez, Raúl Del Pozo-Rubio

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The impact of mild cognitive impairment on healthcare utilization and costs: A UK Biobank study by Craig Ritchie, Dominic Trepel, Sophie Edwards, Julie Hviid Hahn‐Pedersen, Mei Sum Chan, Benjamin D. Bray, Alice Clark, Christian Ahmad Wichmann, Marc Evans

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Customized Insulation Strategies for Türkiye: Life Cycle Cost Analysis and Impact on Business Competitiveness by Muhammet Saygın, Ekin Can Dolgun, Serkan Say, İsmail Yavuz Öztürk

“…This study employs life cycle cost analysis and average heating degree day values to calculate the optimum insulation thickness for 81 provinces in Türkiye. …”
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Multi-Stage Methods for Cost Controlled Data Compression Using Principal Component Analysis by Swarnali Banerjee, Bhargab Chattopadhyay

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Estimation of intangible quality costs using neutrosophic AHP-TOPSIS, Neutrosophic Sets and systems by Yaité Pérez Mayedo, Yadira Velázquez Labrada, Néstor Miguel Álvarez Álvarez, Leonardo Rafael Pérez Molina, Maikel Leyva Vázquez, Shakila Devi G T

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Coral sands as potential low cost treatment for removing fluoride from drinking water by M.H. Lecompte, B. Robinson, S. Gaw

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Overtreatment of COPD with inhaled corticosteroids--implications for safety and costs: cross-sectional observational study. by Patrick White, Hannah Thornton, Hilary Pinnock, Sofia Georgopoulou, Helen P Booth

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Combined inhaled long-acting beta-agonists and corticosteroids (LABA+ICS) are costly. They are recommended in severe or very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). …”
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Cost-effectiveness study of the MitraClip system for mitral regurgitation treatment in inoperable patients by E. G. Fedina, K. A. Perova, T. S. Teptsova, D. S. Shchurov

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Cohort study evaluating management of burns in the community in clinical practice in the UK: costs and outcomes by Julian F Guest, Graham W Fuller, Jacky Edwards

“…Objective To evaluate health outcomes, resource use and corresponding costs attributable to managing burns in clinical practice, from initial presentation, among a cohort of adults in the UK.Design Retrospective cohort analysis of the records of a randomly selected cohort of 260 patients from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database who had 294 evaluable burns.Setting Primary and secondary care sectors in the UK.Primary and secondary outcome measures Patients’ characteristics, wound-related health outcomes, healthcare resource use and total National Health Service (NHS) cost of patient management.Results Diagnosis was incomplete in 63% of patients’ records as the location, depth and size of the burns were missing. …”
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Reducing surgical trays to cut both carbon emissions and costs in total knee arthroplasty by Pim W van Egmond, Paul Lodder

“…We were able to reach an 11% reduction in total trays used with an estimated 1.03 kgCO2eq and a €29.6 cost reduction per reduced tray. …”
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INEAS’s Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Vemurafenib: Paving the Way for Value-Based Pricing in Tunisia by Mouna Jameleddine, Nabil Harzallah, Hela Grati, Marie Christine Odabachian Jebali, Jaafar Chemli, Sebastián García Martí, Natalie Soto, Andrés Pichon-Riviere, Chokri Hamouda

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Stakeholders’ perspective on the economic cost of managing the invasive Navua sedge in tropical Queensland, Australia by Olusegun O Osunkoya, Boyang Shi, Kunjithapatham Dhileepan

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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Latent Tuberculosis Screening Program Among Healthcare Personnel by Niludi Ranwanee Yasaratna MD, Manuj Chrishantha Weerasinghe MD

“…The total cost for managing an active TB case was $80.44, markedly higher than the $20.84 cost for a Latent TB case. …”
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Low-Cost Air Gap Metasurface Structure for High Absorption Efficiency Energy Harvesting by Wei Hu, Zhao Yang, Fading Zhao, Guangjun Wen, Jian Li, Yongjun Huang, Daniele Inserra, Zhizhang (David) Chen

“…Differently from the previously presented structures which require the use of thicker and low-loss (and for this reason high cost) dielectric substrates, the presented work employs a dual-layer structure with a thin low-loss material and an air gap; they allow for the design of very high absorption efficiency metamaterial-based surfaces, with noticeably reduced costs. …”
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Drug-Eluting Stents in Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease: Cost Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes by Kanaiya Panchal, Snehal Patel, Parloop Bhatt

“…The higher rate of repeat revascularization with DES-PCI in MVD would lead to increased economic burden on patient at long term besides bearing high cost of DES. In diabetic MVD patients, CABG is associated with having better clinical outcomes and being more cost-effective approach when compared to DES-PCI at long term.…”
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Cost-efficiency assessment of a community palliative care team in the last week of life by Elisabete Costa, Hugo Ribeiro, Júlia Magalhães, João Rocha-Neves, Marília Dourado

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K-Band Centralized Cost-Effective All-Optical Sensing Signal Distribution Network by Maged Abdullah Esmail, Amr Ragheb, Hussein Seleem, Habib Fathallah, Saleh Alshebeili

“…This system enables using shared equipment in the transmitter which in turn reduces the overall cost of the network. The performance of the proposed system is investigated by transmitting a radar signal over various transmission media, i.e. fiber, free space optic (FSO), and hybrid fiber/FSO. …”
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A Cost-Effective Method of Restoring Primary Anterior Teeth with Loss of Crown Structure by Adrija Buch, Swara Shah, Pratik B. Kariya, Anisha Keshan

“…Although various options are available today for esthetically rehabilitating anterior teeth, they are costly and technique sensitive. In the present case, we esthetically rehabilitated a 5-year-old child with severe early childhood caries with chairside fabricated indirect composite shell crowns. …”
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Tick genomics through a Nanopore: a low-cost approach for tick genomics by Christina Meiring, Monique Eygelaar, Josephus Fourie, Michel Labuschagne

“…Abstract Background The assembly of large and complex genomes can be costly since it typically requires the utilization of multiple sequencing technologies and access to high-performance computing, while creating a dependency on external service providers. …”
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Estimating direct medical costs of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Philippines: a protocol by Junice Yi Siu Ng, Ivan John Clement, Cecilia Jimeno, Rosa Allyn Sy, Roberto Mirasol, Pepito De La Pena, Araceli Panelo, Rima Tan, Melanie Santillan, Dana Bayani, Erik Wiebols

“…Data will be collected from: (1) hospital databases from public institutions to estimate the cost of diabetes treatment and (2) physician interviews to estimate the cost of management of diabetes in outpatient care. …”
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