RTUP is a member of the International Association of Cancer Registries and contributor of the international publication of incidence data (Forman et al, 2013).
Cumulative averages of intake were determined by FFQs administered every 4 years for 20 years, starting in 1986, and the main outcome of interest in this publication was incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
A structured form for data extraction was used and included such points as the place where the study was conducted, year of publication, TB incidence rate, prevalence of any drug resistance, isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RMP) resistance, MDR- and XDR-TB, risk factor for the incidence and drug-resistant TB.
Of the 191 potentially relevant publications on incidence from the search strategy, we excluded 178 as they were on ethnic groups other than South Asian (eg, studies on East Asian populations such as the Chinese), not on coronary disease or not of prospective design.
Detailed information on the study design and the inter-rater reliability is described in an earlier publication on the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder in that sample.
It was obvious from the data shown in their publications that the incidence was on the decline before programme implementation.
It was not possible to extract the total number of pregnancies (ie, the denominator) from the CEMD or UKOSS publications, making detailed incidence calculations challenging.
The findings of our pilot study 17 were consistent with the few publications reporting the incidence of depression or distress in ethnic minority patients with cancer.
The introduction of MET systems in ANZ appeared to be a response to publications highlighting the incidence of adverse events in hospitals.
In fact, in many publications a high incidence of occult left ventricular failure and pericardial effusion was reported in such patients [ 21].
