Although written while he was in prison, without access to his papers, the memoirs formed a valuable resource, informing military historians on topics such as the background to the invasion of the Soviet Union.
This occurred when the way in which services were organised and resourced informed decisions about who was responsible for continuity of care and where it was provided.
A literature review on quality improvement drove the development of key resources, informed by a mapping of the regional mandate, framed around the 12 action areas, against the local contexts of African Partnerships for Patient Safety hospitals established through field visits.
Given the limited health resources, informed and transparent decision-making becomes increasingly important for health systems worldwide, and there has been a growing interest in application of economic evaluation as a tool to aid informed decision-making for health resources allocation.
African American and non-African American patients with CKD and their families reported that educational resources informing RRT decisions should include information on how RRTs could affect patients' morbidity or mortality, autonomy, experiences with RRT delivery, symptoms, psychological well-being, personal relationships and finances.
Information about financial resources informs estimates of need-based aid, whereas information about the student's academic record informs estimates of merit-aid awards.
We performed qualitative structured group interviews among African American and non-African American patients with CKD and their families to elicit their views regarding information they felt should be featured in educational resources informing RRT selection decisions.
Once college costs and available resources are carefully estimated, any shortfall in resources informs the need for borrowing.
Clinical practice guidelines are useful in improving quality of care and outcomes, reducing inappropriate variation in practice, promoting efficient use of resources, informing and empowering patients and informing public policy.
Our overall goal was to identify the types of information patients with CKD and families would view as important to include in educational resources informing others' RRT selection decisions.
