Using Cost Effectiveness Analysis; a Beginners Guide

A clinician's guide to cost-effectiveness analysis.

Cost-effectiveness analysis can be used to help set priorities for funding health care programs. For each intervention, the costs and clinical outcomes associated with that strategy must be compared with an alternate strategy for treating the same patients. If an intervention results in improved outcomes but also costs more, the incremental cost per incremental unit of clinical outcome should b...

Who Guide to Cost-effectiveness Analysis Co

This article provides a description of the population model PopMod, which is designed to simulate the health and mortality experience of an arbitrary population subjected to two interacting disease conditions as well as all other “background” causes of death and disability. Among population models with a longitudinal dimension, PopMod is unique in modelling two interacting disease conditions; a...

A Beginners Guide to Decentralised Data Fusion

A Beginners Guide to Dual-Quaternions

In this paper, we give a beginners guide to the practicality of using dual-quaternions to represent the rotations and translations in character-based hierarchies. Quaternions have proven themselves in many fields of science and computing as providing an unambiguous, un-cumbersome, computationally efficient method of representing rotational information. We hope after reading this paper the reade...

A Beginners Guide to UML Part I

This article will attempt to provide a fast track introduction for those that need to learn the UML basics and to begin to start understanding UML so that it can be incorporated into your development project. I shall begin by clarifying exactly what UML is and is not. Then question why we should use the UML at all. Then I will conclude part 1 of this article with a high-level tour of the UML mo...