Are fishery management upgrades worth the cost?

Cosmeceuticals: are they truly worth the cost?

Cosmeceuticals are the advances made within the world of dermatological products and the new beckon in skincare. Cosmeceuticals are topical cosmetic– pharmaceutical hybrids intended to enhance the health and beauty of skin. The concept propounded by Dr. Albert Kligman states that “The Cosmeceuticals are topical agents that are distributed across a broad spectrum of materials lying somewhere bet...

A cost-utility analysis of adult group audiologic rehabilitation: are the benefits worth the cost?

The purpose of this study was to conduct a cost-utility analysis comparing two treatment approaches: (1) hearing aid use alone (HA) and (2) hearing aid use with short-term group postfitting audiologic rehabilitation (HA + AR). A total of 105 veterans, 67 males and 38 females, with at least a mild sensorineural hearing loss participated in this study. The SF-36V was administered to each particip...

Precious The Corals Fishery Management Plan of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council

Continuous quality improvement in the cardiac catheterization laboratory: are the benefits worth the cost and effort?

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) has been described as a methodology to continually improve the processes associated with providing a product or service to meet or exceed customer expectations.1 In reality, the CQI process is a collection of techniques borrowed from the fields of systems theory, statistics, engineering, psychology, and others and is based on the work of pioneers in industri...

Creatine: are the benefits worth the risk?

Creatine monohydrate is a popular sports supplement used to maintain levels of high-energy phosphates during exercise. As a supplement, varying amounts are consumed per person corresponding to parameters such as body mass and level of training (i.e. maintenance versus loading doses). Numerous studies have reported beneficial effects including increased muscle mass during training and neural pro...