While the majority of published studies on financial-incentive programmes examine programmes for doctors [ 22], a number of articles investigate programmes that enrol other health professionals in addition to doctors, such as nurses, pharmacists or dentists [ 7, 11, 26].
The aim of this work was to investigate programme impact using data collected routinely for quality control purposes.
A process evaluation is conducted to investigate programme integrity (whether the programme has been executed according to protocol) and to evaluate children's and parents' opinions about 'FRIENDS for Life' using online focus groups and interviews.
We expect that our research will find general acceptance because the investigated programme provides many medical students and even more medical interns (eg, in the elective period known) a great opportunity to deliver prevention programmes not only in inpatient secondary prevention, but also and in particular in primary prevention in schools and communities.
Previous studies investigating education programmes in COPD have found varying degrees of effectiveness [ 9, 17, 28].
Ofcom said it had received one complaint about the broadcast on 18 March and said it would be investigating the programme for use of offensive language before the 9pm watershed.
The commission investigating the programme charges that Benon Sevan, who ran it, received kickbacks.
Ofcom received five complaints about Ferrari's comments, but said that after carefully investigating the programme, it had decided the show had not breached the broadcasting code.
Finally, around 2 years later, Trujillo surrendered to his longing for a research career and began to investigate graduate programmes that would allow him to become a researcher.
We investigated two programmes of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany) for the promotion and support of highly talented young scientists in the life sciences to answer this question.
