Principal methods employed in achieving the specified objectives of the Study included, but were not limited to: desk review, literature search, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, rapid survey techniques, and gap and SWOT analyses.
The studies, which were described in detail previously,, were designed in a similar way within the context of each country's immunization schedule, with the pre-specified objective of pooling data for the primary objective of assessing the non-inferiority of MMR and VAR co-administered with Hib-MenCY compared with co-administration with a licensed Hib vaccine.
8 A pre-specified objective of the PLATO trial was to compare ticagrelor and clopidogrel in the stratum of patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome whom, at randomisation, the treating physician stated as planned for a non-invasive treatment strategy.
The examination of agreement on symptom assessments between patients and health care providers was one of the pre-specified objectives of the study.
The primary pre-specified objectives of the current study were to determine whether the PAM50 subtypes, and/or the PAM50 proliferation score, were associated with OS and/or predictive of paclitaxel benefit.
Eligible observational studies were those conducted on individual participants that examined the association between any indicator of childhood SEP (e.g. parental occupation or education) and at least one of four pre-specified objective measures of physical capability (grip strength, walking speed or get up and go test [22], chair rises and standing balance) in adulthood.
In order to ensure high-quality water and service, MASCC regulates the performance of MAS-BCWLC via assessing annually the specified objectives approved by both the MAS-BCWLC board and MASCC.
It measures preferences between intervention options by counting the extent to which specified objectives are preferred most [ 2, 3].
In this paper, we consider the specific objective of inducing a pre-specified desired policy.
