Sentence examples for as a main intervention from inspiring English sources

Studies which looked at financial incentives as a main intervention were excluded as there were already reviews covering those aspects in generic prescribing.

If the next pandemic occurs in a few years, vaccines and antiviral agents, particularly neuraminidase inhibitors, may not be available as a main intervention in developing countries.

The introduction of integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) more than two decades ago strengthened the management of diarrhoea [ 6], with the adoption of oral rehydration solution (ORS) as a main intervention for diarrhoea treatment, recommended by World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund UNICEFF) [ 7].

One publication documenting a service targeting mothers and infants identified health promotion and education as the primary intervention [ 36], another identified advocacy, support and psychotherapy as the main interventions [ 30] and two did not state a main intervention type [ 16, 37].

Assuming the effect size to be the same for both branching and feedback interventions, a sample size of 88 students would provide sufficient power to detect the main effects and an interaction effect that was twice as large as the assumed main intervention effect in the setting shown in Table  2.

In another study, structured group visits facilitated by a diabetes educator were used as the main intervention [ 34].

Following these studies, the government prioritized anaemia control in the 9th Five Year Plan and developed a multi-pronged national strategy with introduction of a weekly Iron Folic Acid supplementation (WIFS) as the main intervention.

A further 17% of publications identified an integrated or continuum of care model as the main intervention type.

We also excluded studies of financial incentives as the main intervention as this had been adequately covered in a previous systematic review.

Several supervision interventions included a problem-solving component but few reported problem solving as the main intervention or used formal quality assurance tools.

Another 4 (17%) publications identified an integrated or continuum model of maternity care as the main intervention [ 19, 23, 24, 28].