By complementing a review with snowballing, we intend to identify more relevant papers, increase the number of papers about the topic of interest, and complement and enrich the results presented by Diirr and Santos (2013).
A comprehensive overview of the costs and benefits of health worker migration can be found in Table 2, which complements a previous review of Stewart, Clark, and Clark (18) and provides an overview of the relevant claims in the current discussion.
To answer these questions, the article synergises results from various research activities undertaken by the authors, complemented by a review of insights from the academic literature.
Key informant perspectives were complemented by a review of published articles.
The interviews were complemented with a review of relevant legislation and policy documents.
The next step was to extract areas and concepts based on results from the previous focus group interviews (14) complemented by a review of the literature (15 17).
The manual review of biopsy reports was then complemented with a review of patient charts from 160 individuals undergoing small intestinal biopsy (121 with VA and 39 with inflammation).
This was supported and complemented by a review of relevant documentation, some data analysis and case studies in three different types of school districts (CISCOs), including visits to schools and interviews with education officials, teachers, students and parents.
The survey was complemented by a review of CPH records and reports at two points in time after the initiation of the intervention to ascertain whether the intervention package was implemented successfully, and was functioning as intended.
The household survey for maternal deaths was complemented by a review of the major government hospital records in Satna, the University teaching hospital in adjoining Rewa district, and death reports from the police 'kotwar' (a member of the police force responsible for reporting all deaths in a village as is required by law).
