cost effective

in the health sciences, pertaining to a situation in which funds spent to improve the health and well-being of a client or group reduces the overall cost of care. Increased productivity produces more output for the same input or produces the same output for less input. A change in practice that results in the same patient outcomes but uses fewer resources is cost effective. Health prevention and promotion strategies save potential costs in the long run. Nurse researchers have been able to demonstrate that the care of clinical nurse specialists can save significant health care costs without reducing the quality of care.

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Put simply, it is time for policymakers to reevaluate loading order priorities to ensure that the state and national policies to reduce energy consumption will be achieved in a cost effective manner."

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This is often not very cost effective; in fact, it can be prohibitively expensive.

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CDC guidelines recommend routine use of screening in populations with more than 1% of people infected, but the new articles used different statistical analyses of existing data to show that some HIV screening could be cost effective even in populations with only 0.1% infected--the prevalence of HIV in the entire U.S.