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A research agenda for malaria eradication: monitoring, evaluation, and surveillance. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2011
Monitoring, evaluation, and surveillance measure how well public health programs operate over time and achieve their goals. As countries approach malaria elimination, these activities will need to shift from measuring reductions in morbidity and ...
malERA Consultative Group on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Surveillance
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Risk of herpes zoster following mRNA COVID-19 vaccine administration

Expert Review of Vaccines, 2023
Background Adverse events following mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, including herpes zoster (HZ), have been reported. We conducted a cohort study to evaluate the association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccination and subsequent HZ at Kaiser Permanente Southern ...
Ana Florea, Jun Wu, Lei Qian, Bruno Lewin, Lina S. Sy, I-Chun Lin, Jennifer H. Ku, Hung Fu Tseng   +7 more
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Methacholine challenges: comparison of different tidal breathing challenge methods

ERJ Open Research, 2021
Tidal-breathing methacholine challenges are now recommended by guidelines, to avoid the bronchoprotective effects of deep inhalation. This study compared different tidal breathing methacholine challenge methods; assessed the agreement between tidal ...
James Dean, Natalie Jackson, Brett Keidel-Morgan, Daniel Hamer, Dave Singh   +4 more
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Evaluating malaria programmes in moderate- and low-transmission settings: practical ways to generate robust evidence

Malaria Journal, 2020
Background Many countries have made substantial progress in scaling-up and sustaining malaria intervention coverage, leading to more focalized and heterogeneous transmission in many settings.
Ruth A. Ashton, Debra Prosnitz, Andrew Andrada, Samantha Herrera, Yazoumé Yé   +4 more
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The TRIFLOW study: a randomised, cross-over study evaluating the effects of extrafine beclometasone/formoterol/glycopyrronium on gas trapping in COPD

Respiratory Research, 2020
Background The effects of triple therapy on gas trapping in COPD are not fully understood. We evaluated the effects of the long acting bronchodilator components of the extrafine single inhaler triple therapy beclometasone dipropionate/formoterol ...
James Dean, Catalina Panainte, Naimat Khan, Dave Singh   +3 more
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In-Use Stability of SB12 (Eculizumab, Soliris Biosimilar) Diluted in Saline and Dextrose Infusion Solution after an Extended Storage Period

Drugs in R&D, 2023
Introduction SB12 is a biosimilar to eculizumab reference product [SolirisTM (Soliris is a trademark of Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)] that acts as a C5 complement protein inhibitor. The infusion stability of in-use (diluted) SB12 outside the conditions
Minji Tak, Hawon Jeong, Jihoon Yun, Jihyun Kim, Soyeon Kim, Yoonsook Lee, Su Jin Park   +6 more
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Evaluation of the Efficacy and Safety of Initial Empirical Antibiotic Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Middle-Aged People

Безопасность и риск фармакотерапии, 2022
β-lactam antibiotics, including cephalosporins, are the drugs of choice for empirical antibiotic therapy (ABT) in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
T. V. Alexandrova, O. V. Muslimova, M. V. Zhuravleva, A. A. Alexandrov, G. I. Gorodetskaya, E. Yu. Demchenkova, O. A. Demidova, E. A. Sokova, I. A. Mazerkina, Yu. А. Smirnova   +9 more
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An evaluation of course evaluations [PDF]

ScienceOpen Research, 2014
Abstract Student ratings of teaching have been used, studied, and debated for almost a century. This article examines student ratings of teaching from a statistical perspective. The common practice of relying on averages of student teaching evaluation scores as the primary measure of teaching effectiveness for promotion and tenure decisions should be ...
Richard Freishtat, Philip B. Stark
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Developing South Africa’s national evaluation policy and system: First lessons learned

African Evaluation Journal, 2015
This article describes the development of the national evaluation system in South Africa, which has been implemented since 2012, led by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME, previously the Department of Performance Monitoring and ...
Ian Goldman, Jabulani E. Mathe, Christel Jacob, Antonio Hercules, Matodzi Amisi, Thabani Buthelezi, Hersheela Narsee, Stanley Ntakumba, Mastoera Sadan   +8 more
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Characteristics and outcome of COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU: a nationwide cohort study on the comparison between the first and the consecutive upsurges of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands

Annals of Intensive Care, 2022
Background To assess trends in the quality of care for COVID-19 patients at the ICU over the course of time in the Netherlands. Methods Data from the National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE)-registry of all COVID-19 patients admitted to an ICU in the ...
Dave A. Dongelmans, Fabian Termorshuizen, Sylvia Brinkman, Ferishta Bakhshi-Raiez, M. Sesmu Arbous, Dylan W. de Lange, Bas C. T. van Bussel, Nicolette F. de Keizer, the Dutch COVID-19 Research Consortium   +8 more
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