Befriending: cost-effective community care

Cost-effective infertility care.

Cost-effective healthcare has become a principal paradigm in all areas of medicine. In order to establish cost-effective care, clinical outcomes under various cost conditions have to be examined. Such a process cannot be static since it has to consider ever evolving treatments and outcome results. In infertility, the evaluation of cost-effective care should be simpler than in most other areas o...

..........a Step Towards Cost Effective Quality Care

Education systems are changing worldwide and so are the changes in methods of teaching. Since nursing is a profession which requires development of skills in patient care, and in that teaching-learning process, patients cannot be put to risk. Therefore high tech simulation techniques are the best choice, whereby the students are exposed to different high-fidelity simulators and different patien...

Cost-effective health care: the Rochester experience.

Rochester, New York, has been cited repeatedly for having achieved one of the most cost-effective and efficient health care systems in the country. The determinants of the success of this system include a long history of comprehensive health planning; innovative hospital reimbursement programs; community-rated health insurance; and high levels of mutual cooperation among business, insurers, hos...

What's cost-effective in cancer care?

Befriending carers of people with dementia: a cost utility analysis.

OBJECTIVE There is very little evidence on the cost-effectiveness of social care interventions for people with dementia or their carers. The BEfriending and Costs of CAring trial (BECCA, ISRCTN08130075) aimed to establish whether a structured befriending service improved the quality of life of carers of people with dementia, and at what cost. METHODS We performed an economic evaluation alongs...