The combination of this experimental design along with the monitoring and evaluation protocol presented here may provide a robust framework to rapidly assess the effectiveness of ICS interventions in progress.
The aims of this study were to identify factors within the team, the community and the professionals that influence the development of these activities and to describe the community interventions in progress.
Although there is currently a lack of good studies, there are seven intervention studies in progress or recently completed (Table 4)[ 15, 37- 39], A number of these are funded by the CDC[ 38] and appear to be high quality RCTs with adequate sample size.
Finally, there are relatively few studies of interventions to reduce primary care high-risk prescribing, with the best evidence to date for pharmacist-led interventions, 25 26 although other studies of GP-led interventions are in progress.
More specific experiments with molecular biological interventions are in progress to further examine the pathophysiology of DMD and test the long-term efficacy of PDE5I on adult mdx mice.
"The intervention is still in progress and we will continue" as long as needed.
Confirmatory data may come from large scale intervention trials currently in progress (24, 25).
A randomized intervention trial is in progress in Kerala, India, to evaluate the effectiveness of oral visual inspection by trained health workers (HWs) in the prevention of oral cancer.
It is difficult to compare these findings to previous research because the research team identified only one other intervention study currently in progress [ 28] to influence decision-making in public health benefit purchasers.
The N-Catch consists of eight items, and covers quantity and/or quality of the stages of the nursing process (Table 1): Assessment, nursing care plan with nursing diagnoses, outcomes and interventions, and evaluation in progress- and discharge notes.
