Pain management was provided using standard MSF protocols: Paracetamol was used as a first line management; Amitriptyline and/or Carbamazepine were prescribed for neuropathic pain.
Within the SC, children were treated according to the standard MSF inpatient-treatment protocol for SAM, which is very similar to the later published Indian Ministry of Health 2011 operational guidelines for facility-based management (17).
PTSD: Posttraumatic stress disorder; MSF: Médecins Sans Frontières; SD: Standard deviation; OR: Odds ratio; CI: Confidence interval.
The SVM-MSF uses probability SVM and consequently MSF.
The development of a standard recommended (SSF) and minimum required (MSF) form to collect data on the surgical phenotype of endometriosis.
Many African health ministries do not want to see protection standards "get dialled up" to unaffordable levels, adds MSF's Dr Sprecher.One practical way to prevent infection and lessen the risk to health-care workers is to educate the general population about the disease, says Khadija Sesay, head of the Open Government Initiative in Sierra Leone.
Similar with other MSF instruments, we have not formally tested the criterion validity of instruments, because a separate gold standard test is lacking [ 11].
Quality care was assured through strict adherence to a specific set of minimum standards of care and, over a 16 month period, MSF operated on nearly 600 patients - mainly young adults comprising slightly more males than females.
Two reviewers independently selected and quality assessed the studies and abstracted data regarding study design, setting, MSF instrument, behaviour changes identified and influencing factors using a standard data extraction form.
The gold standard in Pakistan is set by the ICRC and MSF, who have been battling with military authorities to gain access to war zones while operations are still being conducted.
