One therapeutic area that is particulary prone to an increased consumption of high-cost pharmaceuticals is oncology.
The main consumers of interest to innovators in high-cost technology are clinicians, hospital management, and funders (11).
Initially, priorities were driven by the main cost-concerns; that is, high-tech, high-cost interventions, such as heart and liver transplantation procedures.
This is particularly likely if energy taxes are relatively high-cost revenue policies.
Therefore, strategies should be developed to identify patients at risk of becoming high-cost patients and to prevent this from happening.
The resultant proposals were then evaluated through the usual management processes for authorizing high-cost care packages on an 'asif-real' basis.
This abstraction might lead certain crops, particularly the high-cost high-yielding varieties of rice, to be chosen more often in the model than in practice.
For analytical convenience, we divide participants' claims into high-cost demands and low-cost demands.
