To demonstrate well-being results, the next Programme will need greater linkage of CCD to particular thematic areas.
This could be taken as an indication that irrespective of the approach to HIV testing, those HIV-positive patients most in need of linkage to care were in fact prioritised by health providers for ART initiation, which is reassuring.
Issues relating to sustainability and ownership of the process arise in health services research in general and the need for linkage and exchange between planners and researchers has been highlighted [ 17].
Table 1 Good practice assessment categories Category Comment on best practice indicators Planning framework Effective plans need strong linkages between issues, objectives, policies, and methods.
Our findings support the emphasized need for linkages between community and facility-based care in the context of continuum of care.
The Patient Assessment and Support domain included the Needs Assessment, Linkage to Community Resources, and Monitoring, Follow Up, and Responding to Status Change subdomains (see Fig. 2).
Although the specific number of SNPs needed for linkage disequilibrium studies is unknown, the 1.4 million SNPs in the public domain should offer a sufficient number to explore most regions of the genome.
These studies along with our results suggest the need for linkages of administrative to other types of data, such as pharmacy data (eg, antibiotics or inotropic use), to enhance the ascertainment of sepsis for surveillance purposes.
This study will include the thorough validation of the primary data if needed, the linkage of the various databases into one large longitudinal database, an in-depth epidemiological analysis to answer our questions, and a careful interpretation and dissemination of the results to assist the decision-making process of clinicians, researchers and policymakers in transfusion medicine.
With reliable estimates of cross-border population flows and service utilisation, researchers can gain a better picture of the need for national linkage studies over state-based linkages projects.
