Good evidence-based professional policy, guidelines and protocols should therefore be worked out using the best available evidence and clinical knowledge tools for ensuring that research is integrated into clinical practice [ 7].
The IM approach has proved to be useful for ensuring that evidence (both local and international) and theory inform the development of the Ntshembo intervention, and this approach has highlighted the importance of considering personal and environmental determinants of behaviour.
"The lab notebook needs to be signed by another person every day because it simply has to provide evidence for patenting, ensure that the findings can be used by another person in the company, and furthermore, account for the time spent".
Given the high burden of cardiovascular disease and mortality in IRD patients, ensuring the prompt initiation and continuation of evidence-based therapies is critical for ensuring the best outcomes.
Given the burden of cardiovascular disease and excess mortality in IRD patients, encouraging the use of evidence-based therapies is critical for ensuring the best outcomes in this high risk group.
However, one of the two policy objectives for priority area three health impact is to 'Develop and implement a national plan for ensuring that evidence-based assessment and treatment services for alcohol misuse and dependence are available in urban and rural Malawi'[ 1], with similar wording in the other three documents [ 2– 4].
Sir Paul Nurse, a geneticist who received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and who is the president of the Royal Society*, said, "If the Commission has a plausible plan for ensuring that scientific evidence will be taken seriously they need to start sharing it with people soon".
Practice system tools are useful for ensuring the uptake of evidence into practice [ 31].
Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures must provide evidence that their development followed a rigorous process for ensuring their content validity.
The results from this study provide evidence for instituting user fees as potential financing mechanisms for ensuring sustainability of the model.
