The selection process takes place in four stages: 1. Children from grades 6, 7 and 8 take a letter home informing their parents about the selection procedure for the programme and evaluation study.
Given that this is the first development of a complex intervention for cancer couple dyads in China, the acceptability of the procedures of the programme, and the recruitment and retention of participants to achieve the proposed number of participating dyads, remain uncertain.
The intervention extends the Safe Recovery programme to include staff and unit procedures, which allows the programme to be delivered as part of the ongoing clinical care on the ward.
Alexander Smoleevskiy, Sukhrob Kamolov, Alexey Sitev, Diego Urbina, Romain Charles and Wang Yue all had to pass through a rigorous selection procedure to get on the programme, and their "departure" on the grounded spaceship last year drew wide international attention and curiosity.
This suggests that, in addition to focusing on overall impacts, which is typically done in employment and training demonstrations, policy evaluation should, where possible, pay attention to implementation procedures across offices where the programme is being conducted.
If triage procedures are performed within the programme, the results are recorded in the SIMP.
These findings are an excellent example of the robustness of the procedure which the IARC Monographs programme employs to evaluate carcinogenicity of a chemical, biological, physical or lifestyle exposure (Cogliano et al, 2004a).
In order to standardise procedures, this programme establishes a minimum of six visits for a full term pregnancy, with the first visit recommended to be held before 16 weeks of gestation [ 18, 19].
In Denmark, palliative care is approached in the hospitals' national accreditation procedure, the 'Danish Healthcare Quality Programme' - DDKM (a Danish abbreviation for 'Den Danske Kvalitets Model') in the Standard 2.19.1: 'Palliative care of the incurable patient and the patient's relatives'.
These procedures had been selected for the programme by the Department of Health for England as commonly occurring elective operations.
