Excluded publications were case studies, editorials, letters to the editor, narrative reviews, or publications from non-peer-reviewed journals; multidrug, multicountry, or multidisease studies with no drug-, corntry-, or disease-level analysis; or studies of participants on dialysis.
Multicountry studies are useful for comparing serotype dynamics among population groups that have different levels of vaccine and antimicrobial drug use, but analyses should account for underreporting and prevaccine trends.
Maluka's work, and the work of the multicountry EU-sponsored REACT project he describes (7), examines the acceptability of accountability for reasonableness at the district level.
Multicountry studies of health-care worker job satisfaction have revealed interesting variations between countries, suggesting that macro-level cultural, economic and political factors, such as labour policies and work culture and expectations might significantly shape an individual's attitudes towards his or her work [ 24, 25].
It was seen in the multicountry evaluation of integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), where improvements in quality of care were mitigated by low levels of care-seeking at health facilities and a failure to reach sick young infants (younger than 2 months old).
Plan International said a co-ordinated multicountry emergency response was needed.
Several regional and multicountry surveys were established in the 20th century.
OPEC is protected from prosecution mainly because it is a multicountry organization headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
"It revives the concern that a multicountry sovereign default could happen".
White Americans fared better than the multicountry average in literacy, but were about average in the math and technology tests.
