PURPOSE To evaluate and compare the costs of MRI-guided and CT-guided cervical nerve root infiltration for the minimally invasive treatment of radicular neck pain. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between September 2009 and April 2012, 22 patients (9 men, 13 women; mean age: 48.2 years) underwent MRI-guided (1.0 Tesla, Panorama HFO, Philips) single-site periradicular cervical nerve root infiltration wit...

A precise determination of direct and indirect costs of implementing the Freedom of Information Act is not possible because agencies generally lack detailed supporting records. Costs of over $61 million were identified mainly from agencies’ 1981 annual reports. The reports vary widely in the ways costs are categorized and measured but provide an indicator of total cost. Inquiries at four agenci...

because of the paramount importance of job satisfaction and due to its main consequences such as reduction of work absence and resignation, personnel promotion and society’s health, and more importantly, its role in achievement of organization goals, this study aimed at investigating the effects of six social factors including personnel’s belief, salary and benefits, participation in organizati...

This paper presents a dynamic positioning control scheme for concrete caissons in an attempt to automate part of the manoeuvres which usually require complex deploy personnel and equipment port infrastructures development. The aim this is propose scheme, able provide reduction costs improvement security . To do so, dual loop controller developed unscented Kalman filter applied states perturbanc...

CONTEXT Home environmental interventions (EIs) and assistive technology (AT) devices have the potential to increase independence for community-based frail elderly persons, but their effectiveness has not been demonstrated. OBJECTIVE To evaluate a system of AT-EI service provision designed to promote independence and reduce health care costs for physically frail elderly persons. DESIGN Rando...

This paper focuses on the current situation of hospital fabric cleaning and transportation system, uses more advanced RFID technology to optimize improve some processes, so as efficiency, reduce loss costs, clarify responsibilities all parties, information management level, contact between personnel fabrics, personnel, risks.

INTRODUCTION After almost 10 years of PEPFAR funding for antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment programmes in Kenya, little is known about the cost of care provided to HIV-positive patients receiving ART. With some 430,000 ART patients, understanding and managing costs is essential to treatment programme sustainability. METHODS Using patient-level data from medical records (n=120/site), we es...

This article is devoted to the analysis of approaches classification personnel costs. Based on analyzed material, a conclusion has been made about different accounting for costs, as well their incomplete classification. The authors attempted create refined costs with allocation an additional feature based theory logistics.