Group work, cost-effectiveness

Amann M et al (2011) An Updated Set of Scenarios of Cost-effective Emission Reductions to Improve Air Quality in Europe in 2020 - Background paper for the 49th Session of the Working Group on Strategies and Review Geneva, September 12-15, 2011... 

E-mail Address will.callicott srs.gov Web Address www.srs.gov The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a nuclear fuel storage and production site that works to protect the people and the environment of the U.S. through safe, secure, cost-effective management of the country s nuclear weapons stockpile and nuclear materials. While the site is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy, it is operated by Washington Savannah River Company, LLC (WSRC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Washington Group International. 

Work groups identified several trends for the future. Major factors expected to affect pharmacy included a growing elderly population, more health promotion and wellness activities, increased efforts to prove the cost effectiveness of drugs, a decline in healthcare expenditures as a proportion of the Gross National Product, and an increase in nontraditional therapies. There would be more sophisticated drug delivery systems, and more prescription drugs would become available on a nonprescription basis. Finally, it was believed that pharmacists... 

Sullivan S, Elixhauser A, Buist AS, Luce BR, Eisenberg J, Weiss KB National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Working Group Report on the cost effectiveness of asthma care. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1996 154(3 pt 2) S84-S95. 

Immunochemical methods are rapidly gaining acceptance as analytical techniques for pesticide residue analysis. Unlike most quantitative methods for measuring pesticides, they are simple, rapid, precise, cost effective, and adaptable to laboratory or field situations. The technique centers around the development of an antibody for the pesticide or environmental contaminant of interest. The work hinges on the synthesis of a hapten which contains the functional groups necessary for recognition by the antibody. Once this aspect is complete, immunochemical detection methods may take many forms. The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is one form that has been found useful in residue applications. This technique will be illustrated by examples from this laboratory, particularly molinate, a thiocarbamate herbicide used in rice culture. Immunoassay development will be traced from hapten synthesis to validation and field testing of the final assay. 

On the basis of these observations, the Military Munitions Waste Working Group believes that the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of... 

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