This study did not consider the issue of surveillance and reporting of outcome indicators at regional or national level, nor the merits (or otherwise) of evaluation of performance and feed-back, based on benchmarking (e.g. comparisons between units).
In contrast, in colorectal cancer, CD168 expression was not found to be strongly independently associated with tumor progression and risk of tumor recurrence, although researchers insisted on the clinical merit of quantitative evaluation of CD168 positivity.
The low prevalence (compared with MSM) of HR-HPV and its better correlation with AIN2+ in non-MSM in our study merits further evaluation of HR-HPV as a screening test for histological AIN2+ neoplasia among HIV-infected women and HSM.
In light of previous findings showing that NO modulates the production of ET-1, the result of the study disclosing Arctigenin exerts the vasodilation effect through both the suppression of ET-1 and enhancement of NOS merits further evaluation.
"There was a feeling that you can't have merit pay without some sort of evaluation.
Therefore, phenotypic characterization of CTCs according to the expression of ALDH1 and TWIST merits further evaluation in a larger cohort of patients, in order to investigate the clinical significance of the above findings.
While the merits of theory-driven and realist evaluation have been amply discussed in journals on evaluation (see for instance [ 36- 41] and [ 42- 44], there is little documented experience in the domain of health service organisation and public health, notable exceptions being [ 45] and [ 46].
Consequently, depending on the empirical properties of autosomal versus sex-chromosome inserts the relative merits of both approaches would warrant evaluation within the specific objectives of a given program.
A fair comparison for the relative merits of these methods requires their evaluation on benchmark datasets, which the DREAM (Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods) project (Marbach et al., 2009) provided.
The potential prognostic implication of IGF1R expression merits further evaluation.
