Despite the rigorous efforts of in-country study teams, one third of participants in each group were lost.
The in-country study costs were in the region of $100,000 and this may limit its use in other low income countries.
An ideal source of unit costs for the cost consequences analysis would be a comparative in-country study with contemporaneous controls that collects relevant cost data.
Submission and review of these minor modifications added a significant load to IRB duties of our collaborators, and resultant delays greatly affected our in-country study timelines.
Special thanks goes to the in-country study team responsible for data collection: Dr Umar Chiroma, Dr Isaac Aladeniyi, Dr Emeka Agbo, Dr Amenze Ogbeidi, and Ms Amarachi Igboegwu.
However, context has not been extensively pursued in country studies of CSR (Örtenblad, 2016; Tilt, 2016).
The authors wish to thank the country research teams, respondents participating in country studies, and country study funders - the Open Society Institute (Zambia); and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (Malawi).
The framework can provide a basis for empirical, in country studies weighing the benefits and disadvantages of medical tourism for health systems.
It is a positive institutional development, formally recognising privacy's significance, and spurring norm-development and in-country studies, with UN priorities such as the integration of a gender perspective (a neglected but crucial aspect of privacy).
They suggest that in countries studied in Asia and the Pacific, SPR and MPR may be somewhat different phenomena, but in South Africa they are not different.
In each country, study partners identified a sample of NH willing to participate to the study.
