OBJECTIVES To examine the cost of care for people with dementia in institutional care settings, to understand the major cost drivers and to highlight opportunities for service development. METHODS Data on 277 residents with dementia in 16 UK residential or nursing homes were collected. We estimated care and support costs and fitted models to the data. Sensitivity analyses were also conducted....

introduction: intraoperative radiation therapy device (iort) is one of the several options for partial breast irradiation. iort is sent to the tumor bed during surgery and can be replaced with conventional standard therapy (ebrt). the aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of iort machine compared with ebrt and to determine the dominant option in terms of the cost-effect...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of a particular control doctrine applied to the service mechanism of a queuing process with lapse. It is assumed that the service discipline is FCFS (first come, first served), arrival process is Poisson, service time distribution is exponential, service process is one phase and the capacity is infinite. It is also assumed that the customer may...

IT systems are more critical to the success of business than ever before. As a best practice, organizations are documenting their business processes and corresponding dependencies on supporting IT systems. As a result they are better able to conduct cost-benefit analysis regarding business objectives and IT investments. In this paper we consider two recent technological advances service composi...

Introduction: Multiplicity of anesthetic services and practice consume few resources individually, but collectively, they mean signifi cant cost. Economic and pharmacoeconomic studies are done in order to rationalize resources. Aim: 1. To calculate the direct expense in anesthesia and reanimation; 2. To compare expenses to the price of anesthesia according to the unit prices of National Health ...

conclusions accidents resulting in death, total disability and partial disability impose huge costs that are borne by society, and employers bear relatively low costs due to the health, treatment and welfare systems provided by society for the treatment and rehabilitation of injured workers and their families. also, the results of this study show that investment in the hse-ms is effective and a...

BACKGROUND In South Africa, the financing and sustainability of HIV services is a priority. Community-based HIV testing services (CB-HTS) play a vital role in diagnosis and linkage to HIV care for those least likely to utilise government health services. With insufficient estimates of the costs associated with CB-HTS provided by NGOs in South Africa, this cost analysis explored the cost to impl...

due to the importance of “service quality and customerssatisfaction” subject, this study seeks to investigate and prioritize thefactors which are effective on service quality and customers satisfactionusing grey relational analysis (gra) method. in the case of statisticalpopulations with large sizes, none of the other methods can competewith gra from the viewpoint of calculation accuracy. the s...

This paper presents the information aggr egation methods enabling costand QoS-aware service deployment. It is expected that network management tools will require the network itself to participate in the service deployment task so as to adapt to heterogeneous networknodes cost, QoS, and capabilities. The aggregation methods are part of a set of hierarchically-distributed computations, for which ...

Optimizing complex hardware and services into service solutions may significantly reduce the total product life-cycle cost for a customer. Research regarding the customers’ perspective is still scarce, however. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to explore value perceptions among buyers of industrial service solutions developed for complex product platforms. The study is based on the experienc...