Peacock and colleagues [ 21], for example, report only a weak relationship between recommended Panel rankings and cost-effectiveness estimates prepared by the research team (even when measuring effectiveness to reflect objectives developed by the Panel).
Our results differ from those in an unpublished cost-effectiveness report prepared for Canada's federal health minister [20] that estimated Insite prevented 1.08 deaths per year, an estimate below the range of the per annum calculation of our model.
Write a report on the history of the National Weather Service and its effectiveness in preparing people adequately for major storms.
Dr. Dennis Stevens, an infectious disease expert in Boise, Idaho, urged studies to determine the effectiveness of preparing immune globulin from military personnel who were vaccinated against anthrax and using it to treat infected individuals.
"I question its effectiveness in preparing students, particularly students from disadvantaged backgrounds, for careers and college," said David C. Bloomfield, the chairman of the education department at the College of Staten Island.
Doubts were raised, however, regarding its effectiveness in preparing students for specialized science courses.
While accelerated programs have proliferated, there is little published evidence as to the actual number in Canada or on their effectiveness in preparing beginning practitioners who can meet the demands of the workplace.
This echoes the Head Start lobby's success a few years back in strong-arming Congress to block then-assistant secretary Wade Horn's effort to establish a "national reporting system" by which Head Start centers would be judged according to their effectiveness in preparing 4-years-olds to succeed academically in kindergarten.
Though that study reiterated Head Start's effectiveness in preparing students for kindergarten, it also concluded that a number of Head Start students largely lost literacy and language gains by the end of first grade.
Whatever arrangements a charity has to manage its investments it is important to constantly review their effectiveness and be prepared to change them if necessary.
