7 For each policy category, the risk difference represented the difference between the overall proportion of cases with a prenatal diagnosis for countries with that policy and the overall proportion of cases with a prenatal diagnosis for countries with the policy category of reference.
For Down's syndrome, the policy category of reference for prenatal screening was first or second-trimester screening for the whole country; for NTD, the policy category of reference was having a national policy in place for routine ultrasound.
For both malformations, the policy category of reference for pregnancy termination was no legal gestational age limit.
Perhaps the most obvious indication of this is the relatively little emphasis placed by interviewees on the Canadian experiences (which included evaluation studies that demonstrated a decrease in consumption and harms following the introduction of the related policy intervention of reference pricing).
Steve Hunter The proposal reads like an insurance policy: lots of references to other documents, lots of undefined terms, lots of loopholes and no fixed price tag.
In the subscale of Policies, the definition of reference group was participants who perceived no Policies environmental barriers (policy barriers score = 0).
This evaluation will be performed by determination of the ratio between the difference in medical costs and the difference in benefits between the two strategies that are observed in this study, being the usual reference policy of the GP and the reference policy that could be created using a determined algorithm consisting of a clinical score and PoC H-FABP-testing.
An advantage of a trend-based approach is that it provides a purely observation-based perspective in the performance of indicators, as it is not influenced by potentially subjective or policy-driven definitions of reference values, as well as choices of indicator aggregation methods.
Examples of the uses of these data are wide ranging and include public policy applications, the derivation of reference intervals, and research.
(Policy Maker) " The terms of reference of CHWs are more than that of the minister of public health, if we expect them to actually do the work, we need to pay them".
