It is important that the facts are fully established and evidence considered from other sources before any further decisions are taken.
The type of diet that is conducive to the development of this disease has not been established, and evidence-based treatment options are currently lacking.
This situation is similar to that in Jamaica and USA in the early 1970s, when NBS for SCA was not established and evidence relied on prospective studies in hospital-based cohorts, where most of the patients (92% and 65% respectively) were not identified at birth[4], [9].
Finally, the importance of established and evidence-based protocols cannot be overemphasized.
Thus, compliance with current guidelines will be established and evidence to support the development of future guidelines will be generated.
The use of oral corticosteroids as treatment of COPD exacerbations in primary care is well established and evidence-based.
Controlling infections in health facilities involves following standard practices and technical guidelines which are well established and evidence based (21, 22).
Various authors have shown how popular replication of fears about an increase in trafficking into forced prostitution and sex work (and often the conflation thereof) is particularly attractive to sex work abolition groups, anti-immigration lobbies, the media and politicians, and how it does sustained damage to established and evidence-based anti-trafficking programmes [ 4, 19- 21].
In 2005, the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons was established and anecdotal evidence suggests a marked reduction in emigration.
There are clear needs for optimal PCC dosing to be established and for evidence from larger patient numbers.
Thus, the rationale for treatment versus non-treatment is not established and the evidence base in favour of specific AEDs is unknown amid widespread national and international variation in practice.
