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Anticoagulant control facilities are being overwhelmed by requests for monitoring and large numbers of patients are not therefore receiving treatment. Procedures designed for point-of-care testing have therefore been developed, the most popular being the CoaguChek. The need for external quality asse...
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PMID: 20216990
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Guidelines for basic and best/enhanced practices to be followed for each stage of the flour fortification process at the flour mill are presented. The paper is designed to be a companion to the Recommended Practices for the Production and Procurement of Premix used in Cereal Fortification Programs a...
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PMID: 20629354
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This article demonstrates the feasibility of integrating LQAS into multistage cluster sampling surveys and using these results to support a comprehensive national, regional and local programme M&E system. Furthermore, in the recommendations we outlined how to integrate the Large Country-LQAS design...
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PMID: 20139435
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We review progress made with (1) mapping schistosomiasis across Africa using available epidemiological data and, more recently, climate-based risk prediction; (2) the development and use of morbidity questionnaires for rapid identification of high-risk communities of urinary schistosomiasis; and (3)...
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PMID: 19450373
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Of the 1017 slides sampled in 2005, 637 (63%) had proper smear size, 492 (48%) proper thickness and 884 (87%) proper staining; the corresponding figures were 972 (100%), 748 (77%) and 809 (99.6%) for the 972 slides rechecked in 2006. After training, the quality of size and staining of smear preparat...
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PMID: 19383194
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A cross-sectional study using lot quality technique was undertaken among a sample of 198 women in 18 sub-centers (lots) of Bankura-I Community Development Block who had delivered in last 12 months preceding the survey to find out the sub-center(s) with 'acceptable' coverage (> or = 50%) and overall...
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PMID: 20469770
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This study showed a correlation between animal health and human health risk, as measured by carcass contamination. Therefore, animal management decisions on-farm, such as housing, antibiotic use, environment, and level of veterinary care, may directly impact public health....
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PMID: 19006976
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