The project teams CHWs and trained TBAs, supported by NHCs, to provide a continuum of evidence-based essential newborn and curative care for children 0 59 months of age in Lufwanyama District.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for evaluating complex interventions recommends a phased approach through a continuum of increasing evidence [ 17].
One simple distinction is between 'instrumental' and 'conceptual' research use which has been adapted by Nutley et al [ 4] to create a continuum of research evidence (Fig 1) upon which we draw upon in our analyses.
The Medical Research Council's Framework for the Development and Evaluation of RCT for Complex Interventions to Improve Health [ 6] was developed to combat the unique challenge of evaluating complex interventions by building a continuum of increasing evidence to support the effective development of complex interventions through robust methodology.
Both facial continua formed clusters at the end of the continuum, providing evidence of categorical perception.
When the results are organized categorically into responders and nonresponders, it is evident that the low dose is part of the dose response continuum with no evidence of a threshold: 0.5 mg/kg/day, 9 responders out of 9 subjects; 0.1 mg/kg/day, 10 responders out of 10 subjects; 0.02 mg/kg/day, 6 responders out of 10 subjects; and 0.007 mg/kg/day, 4 responders out of 7 subjects.
After a discussion of the benefits and synergies needed to translate implementation research into action, the article discusses how implementation research can be used along the entire continuum of the use of evidence to inform policy.
Review of decisionmaking processes in jurisdictions worldwide [ 10, 24- 44] was performed to explore the continuum from evidence generation to decision, to communication of decision.
Firstly, studies of adults and children show that depressive symptoms behave as a continuum with no evidence of increased morbidity once clinical diagnostic criteria are met [ 23, 51].
Initial search results indicate many studies that can be classified as Type 2 evidence along the continuum of emerging, promising, effective and evidence-based smart home interventions.
14 Barriers to testing delay the entry of HIV-infected individuals to the continuum of care, despite sufficient evidence supporting the value of seeking HCT services.
