Just last semester, a group of my fellow students and I partnered with the South African-based Centre Study of Violence and Reconciliation to draft country reports on transitional justice mechanisms in 21 different African countries.
Data stem from the Danish Dystocia Study, a population based multi-centre study on incidence, risk indicators and women's experiences of labour with dystocia.
Based on a 10-year single-centre study of over 2000 cases of complicated IAI, Swenson et al.[ 21] found that resistant pathogens were isolated from 79% of healthcare-associated infections.
Multi-centre study of habitus-modified length-based weight estimation.
The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study MRCCFASAS) is a multi-centre population based longitudinal study of 13,004 individuals in England and Wales.
However, current observations are based on (single-centre) studies with heterogeneous study designs and limited populations.
This validation is based on a multi-centre study in France, Belgium and Switzerland.
Second, the analysis was based on the results of a single centre study performed in the Czech Republic and although this undoubtedly leads to better control of the study, transferability of results is not automatically relevant to other centres.
However, VCT clients do not represent the general population and extrapolating the findings of single VCT centre based study to Indian population is highly questionable [ 3].
The Tromsø Study is a multipurpose single-centre population based prospective study with repeated health surveys among inhabitants of the Tromsø municipality, Northern Norway [ 7].
However, with the exception of one area-based [ 12] and one multi-centre hospital based [ 10] studies, most of the evidence is derived from retrospective single-centre investigations [ 11, 13– 16].
