We appreciate the efforts of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to develop economic frameworks and tools for the package of policies necessary to implement California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) and meet the requirements of the law. These comments are submitted in response to the April 25, 2008 Economic Analysis Technical Stakeholder Working Group meeting – which focused...

Background In the United States 1 in 45 adults is under criminal justice supervision in the community, and substance use is prevalent among this population. Treatment for this population has been shown to be generally cost-effective and cost-beneficial. Relatively little is known about the costeffectiveness of services to enhance treatment receipt among drug-involved probationers. This study as...

Responding to increasing demands for costeffectiveness relation a recent randomized trial which compared the cost of stapled and handsutured anastomosis in the gastrointestinal tract, has concluded that stapled anastomosis are not efficcient and should be reserved for individual indications. 1 However, one can admit that in the general surgical practice, preference for stapler is so overwhelmin...

H status is inherently a multiattribute construct. We examine multiattribute utility decompositions for the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) utility model commonly employed in medical decision and costeffectiveness analyses. We consider several independence conditions on preference, including the classical notions of preferential independence and utility independence, as well as new related no...

The liability regime governing geologic carbon sequestration will shape the technology’s costeffectiveness and overall attractiveness. Key cradle-to-grave issues affecting liability include choice of liability regime, mandates for corrective action in case of leakage or accident, the need for insurance, and determination of potentially responsible parties. Rather than assuming that the existing...

This paper introduces a new fault tolerant interconnection topology called the Extended crossed cube (ECC). The proposed topology is hierarchical, expansive and recursive in nature. It has reduced diameter, average distance and constant degree of nodes. The paper illustrates various other properties of the proposed system, such as fault-tolerance, reliability, message traffic density, cost, cos...

in the planning or production of the document. Within the committees, it was felt that specific insights into the estimation of costeffectiveness for electrophyiological procedures. M.S. was selected as a participant of this group to provide this specific expertise. M.S. is a Health Economist (MSc in Economics—Ruhr-Universität Bochum and MHE in Master in Health Economics—VLEKHO Belgium) and has...

New molecular and genetic tests are becoming more and more important in research and clinical practice. Using these tests to offer individualised therapy to patients with breast cancer is particularly important in the context of health economics. The targeted use of therapies increases their effectiveness and reduces follow-up costs by preventing recurrence andmetastatic disease. Avoiding over-...

INTRODUCTION: Secondary lymphedema is a chronic and debilitating complication of breast cancer therapy affecting more than one in five breast cancer survivors.1 In this patient population, patient-reported outcomes may be more important in predicting long-term health-related quality of life (HRQoL) than clinician measured outcomes.2 Cost-effectiveness analysis can be used to compare different t...