Many clinics received inputs from a variety of sources.
For instance, during one of Team 2's meetings, the clinical director shared an experience with miscommunication at the clinic and solicited input for creating better risk management for verifying pharmaceutical information on new patients' intake forms.
Figure 3 compares CYP data from district-level statistics (which include both clinic and CHW inputs) with records from the ChildFund Zambia CHWs participating in Luangwa and Mumbwa.
The study focus was initially on treatment-experienced patients (as was the case in the previous studies), but after visiting the participating clinics for their input on the study protocol, the decision was made to also include treatment-initiating patients.
Clinical rheumatologists provided input as they tested the prototypes in clinic and offered feedback in research meetings.
AGHA provided training for GPT during establishment of the clinic and provided intellectual input in writing the study protocol as well as the manuscript.
The EDU team had access to the duty general internal medicine consultant on an ad hoc basis, and referral rights to outpatient services, such as falls clinics, but no routine input from specialists trained in geriatric medicine.
The optimal number of patients that could have STI detected and treated in a year was calculated using the following assumptions, which were based on input of STI clinic staff and persons familiar with the working of these STI clinics: 1.
An enrollment plan of the clinic is used as one input to the simulation.
Whichever staging system is used (Okuda, TNM, Japan Integrated Staging (JIS), Cancer of the Liver Italian Program (CLIP), Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC), the input required from imaging is to demonstrate the number and size of HCCs, to look for vascular invasion, and to find extrahepatic spread.
