Interestingly enough, in 20 of the 21 countries selected, we were able to identify references to country-specific pharmaceutical drug policies, mostly in concordance with the initial resolution of the WHO in the late 1970s and its updates since then.
The focus of a number of current health policy efforts such as the "concordance initiative" [ 5] and the "expert patient programme" [ 6] attest to this fact.
It should also assist with the justification of breast-screening policy, and wider debate about concordance or discordance between the values of influential experts and the considered judgements of the community.
After proper validation, the Dutch CS-PAM will be a useful research instrument to assess the level of concordance between current policy in the Netherlands which is focused on a more active role for the patient and the beliefs of (specific groups of) clinicians which may be more hesitant in this respect.
The variation in the outcomes within individual patients could change over time as concordance with medication policies change a highly complex longitudinal picture.
The primary research question was to identify stakeholder priorities across multiple strategies for CLCC in Asia, to assess if these differed across clinical, policy, and advocacy stakeholders and to explore the concordance of priorities across China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
Thus, the results presented by Halasyamani and Davis might reflect discrepancies between different players (professionals, health policy, patients), but they do not refute the concordance between the different quality indicator sets examined in our study.
Health policy has encouraged lay person recruitment according to ethnic concordance [ 6] and/or addressing language concerns.
Given our findings of lack of concordance in primary studies, the content of current policy might reflect the gap between results and conclusions that is, synthesis of evidence for policy making might be carried out at two independent levels: that of results and that of conclusions.
Larger partner and population studies that use MLST and ompA genotyping will provide valuable data on transmission concordance or discordance that will inform interventions and public health policy to better control C. trachomatis transmission.
This concordance of epidemiology and radiobiology explains why expert committees and health policy agencies worldwide have long used this characterisation for predicting radon-associated lung cancer.
