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The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Abstract What happens when patients suddenly stop their medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug budget as a function of their birth month, beyond which out-of-pocket costs ...
Amitabh, Chandra   +2 more
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Cost, Effectiveness, and Cost-Effectiveness [PDF]

open access: yesCirculation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2009
Pluck the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing . — —Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Minister of Finance to King Louis XIV of France Incremental or marginal cost-effectiveness ratios are founded on a number of assumptions that weaken their suitability as a way to balance competing economic and clinical priorities. We therefore propose
George A, Diamond, Sanjay, Kaul
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Methods and Lessons From Costing a Large mHealth Intervention at Scale in India

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
The use of mobile devices to deliver public health interventions is rapidly increasing, particularly in low resource settings. Despite their proliferation, several mHealth interventions in developing countries fail to reach geographical scale, and long ...
Ritwik Shukla, Avani Kapur
doaj   +1 more source

Probabilistic analysis of payback period for AC–DC transmission and distribution asset expansion projects

open access: yesThe Journal of Engineering, 2019
In this study, a new concept of statistical distribution of payback period is calculated for AC–DC transmission and distribution asset expansion projects. For calculation of the payback period, uncertainty is considered with cost and benefit.
Li Bin   +6 more
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Simulating the line balance to provide an improvement plan for optimal production and costing in petrochemical industries [PDF]

open access: yesمدیریت مهندسی و رایانش نرم
This research examines the influential factors and theoretical principles of queuing in balancing production lines. The required information, including the number of active machines on the production line, the level of station idleness, and the waiting ...
Asghar Hemmati   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Technical and Economical Comparison of Supplying Energy from Combined Solar-Wind Power Plants in Lieu of Natural Gas Transmission Lines

open access: yesبرنامه‌ریزی و بودجه, 2021
Transmission of gas from extraction wells is a precondition for transferring this resource to consumers, which in turn requires a comprehensive system in production, transmission, and distribution.
Zeinolabedin Sadegh   +2 more
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Opportunities and challenges for implementing cost accounting systems in the Kenyan health system [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2016
Background: Low- and middle-income countries need to sustain efficiency and equity in health financing on their way to universal health care coverage. However, systems meant to generate quality economic information are often deficient in such settings ...
Elesban Kihuba   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and LEED for A Green Building Rating

open access: yesJournal of Engineering Science, 2021
Green building design and construction is a global demand to save this earth. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the world's most widely implemented sustainable building rating system.
Mizanoor Rahman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Non-Thermal Plasma Review: Assessment and Improvement of Feasibility as a Retrofitted Technology in Tertiary Wastewater Purification

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
Chlorination, ozonation and non-thermal plasma water purification technologies were compared in terms of their effectiveness, efficiency, capital and operating costs, energy yield and chemical demand. Retrofitting plasma technology to chlorination plants
Kaamil-Inaam Naicker   +3 more
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Cost Analysis of Educational Activities of Graduate Students of Medical School in Independent Hospitals of Iran University of Medical Sciences [PDF]

open access: yesمجله علوم پزشکی صدرا, 2021
Introduction: Expenditure credits are allocated to universities and institutes of higher education every semester based on the number of students and the number of courses, but identifying the actual completed cost of the various courses can help to ...
Shima Nikjoo   +6 more
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