Disease relevance of Cost Control

• Nicardipine can be used safely for the treatment of arterial hypertension after liver transplantation with a potential cost-containment [1].
• It has been evaluated for use in cost-containment programmes, as stepdown (parenteral-to-oral conversion) therapy in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and as abbreviated therapy in upper respiratory tract infections [2].
• Therefore, in the current era of cost containment, recommendations for routine pathological examination of excised pediatric hernia sacs should be reevaluated [3].
• When considering cost-containment strategies in the patient with osteomyelitis, ciprofloxacin can cost between 50% to 80% less than parenteral therapy [4].
• The advantages of treatment with betadine and glycerol are: cost containment of agent and dressings, ease of observing wounds, reduction of direct nursing care and, most importantly, reduction of ward epidemics, especially Pseudomonas [5].

High impact information on Cost Control

• Cost containment in carpal tunnel syndrome [6].
• New, broad-spectrum, parenteral antimicrobial agents are a prime target for cost control [7].
• Cost-containment strategies appeared to limit psychiatric referrals, frequency of psychiatric visits, and use of certain antidepressants (i.e., selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) [8].
• However, the higher acquisition cost of COX-2-specific inhibitors has resulted in the implementation of a programme for cost containment in the Ontario public drug program [9].
• In Minnesota, several health care cost containment measures occurred about the time Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) was implemented [10].

Biological context of Cost Control

• Evidence-based medicine, cost-containment, care effectiveness: is it a new trilogy aimed at transforming the surgical mystique or the reality of double standards [11]?

Anatomical context of Cost Control

• It is concluded that single-dose genitourinary surgical prophylaxis with cefotaxime may be more effective than a longer dosing schedule with cefoxitin in the prevention of post-operative urinary tract infections, and that a single-dose regimen may represent significant cost containment advantages for hospitals [12].
• Thyroid function tests. Selective use for cost containment [13].

Associations of Cost Control with chemical compounds

• Cost containment associated with decreased parenteral antibiotic administration frequencies [14].
• This paper examines two components of the hospital insurance market structure-market share and the absolute number of enrollees in Blue Cross plans-to ascertain whether market structure affects the willingness of Blue Cross plans to use cost control measure [15].
• Although our results support the use of fluoxetine for first-line SSRI treatment as a cost-control measure, we do not definitively recommend its adoption [16].
• The continued use of the latex agglutination assay should be seriously questioned in an era when cost containment and clinical efficiency are becoming increasingly important [17].
• Cost containment through L-alanyl-L-glutamine supplemented total parenteral nutrition after major abdominal surgery: a prospective randomized double-blind controlled study [18].

Gene context of Cost Control

• Cost-containment using an outcome-based best practice model for the management of MRSA [19].
• Cost-containment with glutamine dipeptide-supplemented TPN [20].
• Despite the need for cost containment, these clinical tools are essential to important decisions regarding the care of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease [21].
• CONCLUSIONS: IRFs under PPS implemented cost controls that lead to lower operating costs below the fixed payment to profit under PPS [22].
• Economic impact of cost-containment strategies in third party programmes in the US. Part II [23].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Cost Control

• Sequential drug therapy (induction with globulin, azathioprine and a glucocorticoid followed by delayed administration of cyclosporin) has been associated with an improved clinical course compared with dual therapy, as well as cost containment to a level comparable to that for conventional immunosuppression [24].
• As a complement to a number of existing cost-containment programs, Blue Cross of Maryland developed a length of stay (LOS) review process for its members [25].
• In the interests of cost containment rectal diclofenac could be considered the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug of choice for pre-emptive analgesia [26].
• Considerable cost containment can be achieved by using third generation cephalosporin agents that only require the administration of one intravenous injection per day [27].
• With the intent of cost containment, we conducted a survey of cimetidine usage in the Ambulatory Care Service of our Veterans Administration Medical Center. During a period of six months, this drug was prescribed for 132 patients [28].

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