To the Editor: Among the revelations included in the secret International Committee of the Red Cross report obtained by Mark Danner is new, concrete evidence of supervision by health professionals of torture at C.I.A. "black sites".
It wasn't until the 1970s that this stack was discovered, by Michael Talbot, to contain 12 previously unknown violin sonatas and the only fair copy of The Four Seasons bearing the evidence of supervision in Vivaldi's own hand.
However, most evidence on supervision relates to facility health workers.
However, there is an urgent need for more evidence on supervision in the context of scaled programs, as well as the most appropriate course of action for RDT-negative patients and the effective referral by CHWs of cases that they are unable to treat.
Nonetheless, rigorous research related to the implementation of specific, targeted, evidence-based supervision and/or clinical practices is lacking in criminal justice systems.
In its long-range plans, the Inspectorate expresses its objective to develop and use scientific knowledge for evidence-based supervision [ 3, 4].
Here, four different research institutions work together with the IGZ during a 4-year period in order to develop evidence-based supervision.
The evidence linking clinical supervision to the quality and safety of patient care reveals that supervision is most effective when its educational and supportive functions are separated from its managerial and evaluative functions.
At the same time, however, officials said they did not believe that this incident, by itself, was evidence of lax supervision within the precinct, a matter under review by the Internal Affairs Bureau.
There is also evidence that supportive supervision coupled with audit and feedback improves health worker competence [ 7].
