OBJECTIVE To evaluate the costs and benefits of alternative systems of coronary heart disease monitoring in Scotland. DESIGN An option appraisal was conducted to evaluate the costs and benefits of implementing a coronary heart disease monitoring system. This involved a review of existing Scottish datasets and relevant reports, specification of options, definition and weighting of benefit crit...

There is a large consensus among academics and practitioners that ICT investments should be carefully justified, measured and controlled. In practice, the traditional capital investment appraisal techniques (CIAT’s) such as payback period or net present value are by far the most used techniques. Nevertheless, serious doubts about the fitness of these techniques in an ICT environment arise. ICT ...

BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW In everyday practice, dentists face clinical decisions for which they need to consider both treatment consequences (that is, benefits and harms) and costs. Economic analysis is a study design in which investigators evaluate and compare the costs and consequences of different treatment alternatives within a defined period. A critical appraisal of such studies includes an ...

The extent and value of voluntary insurance against sickness may be assessed in terms of the number of persons and families with such insurance or in terms of the proportion of costs, due to sickness, that are met by the voluntary plans. There is no satisfactory information on the number of different individuals covered, but estimates of the proportion of sickness costs met by voluntary plans c...

Medical claims cost distributions and factors that relate to these costs were studied among 7796 employees who selected an indemnity medical plan for at least one year during 1985 to 1990. Descriptions for medical claims costs were presented for both single- and multiple-year time periods. Factors that associated with high cost status were studied by using multiple logistic regression models. E...

‘Madmen in Authority’ and ‘Academic Scribblers’ Martin Knapp 4 Mental Health Care Reform Shane Kavanagh and Martin Knapp 5 Health Economics and the Pharmaceutical Industry Alan Stewart 9 Economic Appraisal of Psychotherapy Andrew Healey and Martin Knapp 13 QALYs and Mental Health Care Daniel Chisholm, Andrew Healey and Martin Knapp 17 Courses 20 Publications 21 Mental Health and the Value of Em...

introduction: appraiser is the main interface between the performance appraisal system and those being appraised. their views and behaviors have different effects on the performance of the evaluation system, as well as the reactions subjects of the appraisal make toward the system and their subsequent performance. hence, appraisers need to be trained enough regarding the appraisal. therefore, t...

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The Justification of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) is inherently complex, since there are a large range of benefits that are intangible and non-financial. However, it is not only the benefits of IT/IS that present this difficulty but also the range of indirect costs associated with an IT/IS deployment. Therefore, many justification processes are exclusively based on t...