PHP90 Japanese Pricing Reform in April 2012: Toward Cost Containment

Pharmaceutical cost containment with reference-based pricing: time for refinements.

Cost Containment in Europe

Health care cost containment is not in itself a sensible policy objective, because any assessment of the appropriateness of health care expenditure in aggregate, as of that on specific programs, requires a balancing of costs and benefits at the margin. International data on expenditures can, however, provide indications of the likely impact on costs and expenditures of structural features of he...

Digest April 2012

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charm April 12 , 2012

bgAdjust Remove background Description Estimate and remove background signal using anti-genomic background probes Usage bgAdjust(dat, copy=TRUE) Arguments dat a TilingFeatureSet copy Only relevant when using disk-backed objects. If TRUE a copy will be made leaving the original object (dat) unchanged. The input object will not be preserved if copy=FALSE Details Background signal removal using a ...

Cost containment in eye care.

Voluntary eye hospitals committed to serving the community must understand the reality of cost escalation due to inflation, advancements in medical technology and changing expectations of staff and patients. However, these costs are often not matched by the patients’ paying capacity. While increasing income, through increased user fees or donations which are financial options that will be consi...