A limitation of the analysis, similar to many other published economic evaluations of HIV-prevention behavioral interventions, is the assumption that HIV infections avoided during the brief period when the intervention is in place represent infections prevented forever.
The trial data showed that discontinuation rates were similar among all three interventions, justifying the assumption in the model of equal discontinuation rates for all active treatments.
Some public health bodies, such as the Partnership for Prevention, produce prioritized lists of preventive interventions under the assumption that policy makers seek such guidance to maximize the impact of their limited health budgets.
In principle, the coefficient obtained through the double differences yields the causal effect of the intervention under the assumption that the outcomes of treatment and control groups would have had parallel trends in the absence of the policy (Angrist and Pischke (2008)).
Therefore, we gauged the utility of this screen as a further method of intervention under the assumption that hospitals have the facilities to segregate colonized (both asymptomatic and symptomatic) and non-colonized patients.
In this scenario, all individuals aged between 25 and 65 years with IGT or IFG at baseline, or newly diagnosed diabetes at follow-up, were considered eligible for this high-risk prevention intervention, with the assumption that all those with incident diabetes passed through the IGT/IFG state.
Recent evidence of the long-term ineffectiveness of cessation interventions concurs with the assumption that earlier interventions did not bias our results [ 23].
Historically, women with metastatic breast cancer are excluded from lifestyle interventions under the assumptions that diet and physical activity will have little impact on their disease trajectory.
But the islands of Zanzibar did not start implementing the IDD interventions based on the assumption that the population living there had frequent access to sea foods that are rich in iodine.
