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... hospital-based study report- ing any relevant information on incidence, prevalence, case-fatality or mortality, or management and outcomes of patients with heart failure in a well-specified popula- ... See full document

... the study populations in the most rigorous ef fi cacy trials, most of which were drawn from high-income (mostly English speaking) ...Cochrane Review of behavioural treatments for early conduct ... See full document

... Warm Heart of Africa OR Mali OR Republic of Mali OR Mozambique OR Republic of Mozambique OR Myanmar OR Burma OR Republic of the Union of Myanmar OR Nepal OR Democratic Republic of Nepal OR Niger OR Republic of ... See full document

... published protocol (CRD42015022163), TB prevalence surveys in nationally representative and sub-national adult populations (age 15 y) in low- and mid- dle-income countries published between 1 ... See full document

... the study-specific prevalence/incidence will be stabilized with the Freeman-Tukey single arc-sine transformation before pooling the data with the random-effects meta- analysis model ...of low, medium, and ... See full document

... In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is growing against an existing burden of other diseases such as ...rising ... See full document

... significant burden of morbidity and mortality resulting from traumatic injury in children in LMICs, and acknowledging the importance of trauma systems that can collect, analyze, and synthesize data on injury ... See full document

... growing burden on health systems in low- and middle-income countries ...this review is to systematically review the literature on the effectiveness of depression ... See full document

... A study conducted in South Africa, a middle-income country with a high burden of TB, showed that TB incidence peaks in adolescence and that adolescents are the greatest force of Mycobacterium ... See full document

... driver who takes her to the nearest health facility. On verification of the transaction, the project sends a mobile money transfer payment to the transporter. Emergency obstetric transportation programs have also been ... See full document

... this study will examine the current policies and programmes in place for antenatal ...This study may provide crucial informa- tion regarding the effects of antenatal ultrasound on morbidity and mortality ... See full document

... precise study objectives, explicit iden- tification of the population studied, clear definitions of outcomes, independent factors, potential confounders and effect modifiers ... See full document

... studies. Study screening, selection, data extraction and assessment of methodological quality will be undertaken by two reviewers independently and team consensus sought on ...This study will systematically ... See full document

... the review team [Additional file ...of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)), and psycINFO will be searched with appropriate modifica- tion of MEDLINE ... See full document

... the protocol (proportion of adolescent maternal deaths due to each cause), and the remaining seven were excluded as there were fewer than 10 deaths in the ...of study population, lack of representa- ... See full document

... journal), study setting (country of study, country of organisation conducting study, char- acteristics of women receiving maternal health services who were surveyed or for whom costs data were ... See full document

... each study as a risk ratio with its corresponding 95% confidence intervals for dichotom- ous data, or mean difference with its standard deviation for continuous ...interventions, study designs, and outcome ... See full document

... experimental (QE) or randomized control trials (RCT) study designs to control for confounding and bias. For example, estimated policy effects could be biased if self-selection exists, when individuals who expect ... See full document

... Overall, 39 studies involving >3110 participants wereincluded (Fig 2). Participants were children ( n = 290), parents or caregivers ( n = 1609), community representatives ( n = 621), clinical or research team members ... See full document

... ate-quality study, compared enrolees in the Seguro Popular (SP) programme in Mexico, for whom the programme removed copayment for health services for diabetes, with those non-participants where no such benefit was ... See full document