OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost effectiveness of a 4.5 year education campaign that promoted farmers' adoption of rollover protective structures (ROPS) to prevent tractor overturn injuries. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial, decision analysis, and cost effectiveness analysis. SETTING One treatment county and one control county in the State of Kentucky. INTERVENTION A campaign by a local t...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the economics of routine antenatal anti-D prophylaxis in the prevention of haemolytic disease of the newborn, in support of the NICE appraisals process. DESIGN Cost effectiveness analysis. SETTING UK NHS. POPULATION/SAMPLE Pregnant women who are RhD-negative. METHODS A model was constructed to estimate the incremental cost effectiveness and cost utility of: (1) ...

objectives the aim of this study was to study the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio associated with the use of heat and moisture exchangers (hme) filter to prevent vap compared with the heated humidifiers (hh) presently adopted by intensive care unit (icu) services within the brazilian healthcare unified system. patients and methods this study was a cost-effectiveness analysis (cea) comparin...

In this paper, we proposed an algorithm to find the optimal threshold value for denoising an image. A new cost function is designed to find the optimal threshold in every image. The cost function is based on the intuitionistic fuzzy divergence measure of the denoised image and original image. In addition, the intuitionistic fuzzy entropy of denoised image is added to the cost function. This is ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this analysis was to determine the value (incremental cost/increment benefit) of a brain LITT system versus employing current surgical options recommended by NCCN guidelines, specifically open resection (i.e. craniotomy) methods or biopsy (collectively termed CURRENT TREATMENTS) in patients where maximal safe resection may not be feasible. As has been demonstrated in...

BACKGROUND A randomized, controlled trial, intended to include 460 patients, is currently studying peroperative goal-directed hemodynamic treatment (GDHT) of aged hip-fracture patients. Interim efficacy analysis performed on the first 100 patients was statistically uncertain; thus, the trial is continuing in accordance with the trial protocol. This raised the present investigation's main questi...