The high quality evaluated interventions were all from the prevention domain, and were randomised control trials (n = 10) or longitudinal studies based on extract of testing records from large population based Pap testing registers (n = 13).
To systematically review the currently available high quality evidence evaluating treatments for moist desquamation in radiotherapy patients.
Of highest and high quality studies evaluating soil erosion, 92% (11 of 12) were published since 2000, none of which showed an effective result.
Here we report the results of a high quality trial evaluating two common treatments for plantar warts.
However, the authors noted the lack of high quality studies evaluating fitness infusion interventions and the need for further work in this area.
Appraisal using the Quality of Health Economic Studies instrument found two studies of high quality, one evaluating the alternative nurse practitioner role in specialised ambulatory care 29 30 and the other the complementary nurse practitioner role in specialised ambulatory care.
Even though interventions aimed at reducing arm, shoulder and neck symptoms are often used, there is a shortage of high quality studies evaluating the cost-effectiveness of these interventions [ 7].
This evidence suggests there is a need for a high quality trial evaluating "active" screening or case finding programs that include both an identification component and a component where women who disclose can get the support they require.
Prompted by the continuing uncertainty around whether to progress with a screening programme (and by the acknowledged public health importance of glaucoma), the international ophthalmic community has called for a high quality study evaluating population screening for glaucoma versus the current practice of opportunistic case finding [ 22- 25].
For the high quality welds evaluated, an assumed initial crack depth of 0.05 mm was found to correlate best with the experimental data.
