The quantitative component was a four-year longitudinal clustered-randomized control trial in three rural districts, and the qualitative component was a one-time data collection involving in-depth interviews with women and their partners stratified on marital status and program participation.
Three RTC/STIHR programs reported one-time data collection and four reported ongoing follow-up.
Not included in this definition are decision-support tools that are products of one-time data collection and/or do not have an auto update function.
Although it can be criticized that a random sample of the health sector workforce across the 20 countries would have generated more representative findings, it should be taken into account that such surveys are extremely expensive and mostly one-time data collections.
Foremost, technology will provide us better understanding through in-place metrics and real time data collection.
Vigilent equips data centers with wireless sensors for real-time data collection.
The team made home visits with an old-time data-collection instrument: the vacuum cleaner.
Of the 958 (82%) women who were assessed, 276 (28%) were not eligible, usually because they were unavailable at one of the data collection times (n=49), were discharged from hospital too soon to arrange a sleep intervention nurse to visit (n=39), or because of a language barrier (n=39).
At the time of data collection, the DI had one full-time and one part-time nurse, but the medical staff there wished to have 24-h nursing coverage in the facility.
Patients with the following characteristics were excluded from the study: patients, who were on anti-TB treatment for less than one month at the time of data collection, patients who were less than 15 years old and patients who provided inadequate specimen for the laboratory analysis.
The public hospital in which data were collected has a pediatric oncohematology team consisting of ten physicians: two of them were not working at the time of data collection, one of them was in the process of retirement, and two were moving to other services in following weeks.
