Despite the resulting delay in vaccine allocation to the remaining population, for all scenarios, hospitalizations and ICU admissions were reduced compared to vaccination strategies that did not target high-risk groups (Figure 5).
Through this, outputs such as resource re-allocation to improve population health can arise.
Q-matrices were accepted as reproducible if the allocations to each population could be identified as similar in a pair of Q-matrices and were highly correlated (r > 0.999).
In conclusion, our study suggests that a pharmacy-only refill program may be a viable and efficient service delivery option for delivery of ART to eligible patients in Uganda and other low-income countries which are seeking innovative ways to optimize resource allocation to large patient populations, particularly in the face of the current crisis of health workers.
No national formula existed for determining the level of resource allocation to counties based on population, utilization, and access criteria [ 46].
Both patient allocation to the different analysis populations and assessment of the primary end-point were made by staff blinded to the treatment assignment and before availability of the PCR results.
3) The chairman and the statistician of the independent Data Monitoring Committee reviewed the most relevant safety data and participated in the final blinded data review meeting where all decisions about assessment of the primary outcome and patient allocation to the pre-defined populations were made under blinded conditions.
Economic evaluation results will give rigorous evidence to assist policy makers to make appropriate decision on resource allocation to such nutrition interventions at population level and to determine the cost-effectiveness of nationwide roll-out.
The National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China recommended that the MCH human resources to population allocation standard should be 1 10,000 in general, 1: 5,000 in less populated areas and 1: 15,000 in populated areas respectively [ 14].
The results of each exercise are reported on an online scoring platform providing the surgeon his position in the benchmark population and an allocation to the excellent, fair and room for improvement group.
