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Background Increasing healthcare expenditures is a major concern to insurers and governments, but also to patients who must pay a greater proportion of their healthcare costs. The objective of this study was to identify validated tools for measuring the costs of a health condition for patients as well as the diferent elements to be considered when measuring costs from the patient's perspective. Methods A systematic literature review was conducted from 1984 to December 2020. The search strateg...
Introduction Scaling science aims to help roll out evidence-based research results on a wide scale to benefit more individuals. Yet, little is known on how to evaluate economic aspects of scaling up strategies of evidence-based health interventions. Methods and analysis Using the Joanna Briggs Institute guidance on systematic reviews, we will conduct a systematic review of characteristics and methods applied in economic evaluations in scaling up strategies. To be eligible for inclusion, st...
In theory, linkages between hierarchical forest management planning levels ensure coherent disaggregation of long-term wood supply allocation as input for short-term demand-driven harvest planning. In practice, these linkages may be ineffective, and solutions produced may be incoherent in terms of volume and value-creation potential of harvested timber. Systematic incoherence between planned and implemented forest management activities may induce drift of forest system state (i.e., diverg...
Simple estimators were given in [3] for the lower and upper limits of an irregular right-angled triangular distribution together with convenient formulas for removing their bias. We argue here that the smallest observation is not a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the lower limit and we present a procedure for computing an MLE of this parameter. We show that the MLE is strictly smaller than the smallest observation and we give some bounds that are useful in a numerical solution proc...