The research assistants who collected the data attended a one-day training session in the week before the data collection began that aimed to harmonise their approaches and troubleshoot potential problems.
What is crucial is that we keep focusing on surveillance and that we harmonise our approach across countries because if you use different languages and different practices to tackle the disease and approach these people, who should they believe?
It also works to harmonise the approach of national regulatory bodies – like the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency MHRAA).
With the concept of food security gaining ever more attention in policy circles, professionals in the sector are harmonising their approaches, partly so they can generate more coherent information for policymakers.
While these new dictionaries spring up within separate communities, the IUCr provides a coordinating committee known as COMCIFS to help to harmonise their approach.
His finance minister, Hans Eichel, said Europe needs new takeover rules to harmonise the different approaches to corporate control.
A great deal of work has been done by international organisations such as P3G (http://www.p3g.org/) and ISBER (http://www.isber.org/) to harmonise standards and approaches to enable sharing between biobanks.
The framework aims at harmonising the different approaches to river basin management among European countries, and several research challenges surround its implementation.
The Canadian guidelines harmonise the two main approaches to diagnosis, adopting terminology from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) diagnostic criteria 4 and the University of Washington (UW) FASD 4-Digit Diagnostic Code 10 approach to diagnostic assessment and measurement.
