A comprehensive set of metrics quantifying sustainability and cost effectiveness of urban water systems is required to rigorously inform policy, design and management decisions, as cities all over the world face the combined pressures of drought and flood, climatic uncertainty, rising population, and an increasingly complex wastewater.
New technology enables us to examine these programmes more rigorously and inform improvements.
Degas came into an establishment art world that prized most highly the grand picture — the carefully conceived, rigorously executed, historically informed image that, following proven guidelines, would fully and with erudition encapsulate a definitive idea.
In literature, evidence-informed policy was defined as public policy informed by rigorously tested established evidence in the design, implementation and refinement of policy [ 38].
The critical next step in this challenge is not further evidence about the size of the problem, but rather delivery of culturally secure services that are resourced appropriately, at a scale commensurate with need and rigorously evaluated using culturally informed methodologies.
This rigorously designed decision aid may help patients and families make informed decisions about their treatment options for RRT that are well aligned with their values.
"Women need to make informed decisions about their health care based on scientifically sound and rigorously evaluated information, and 'abortion reversal' procedures do not meet these standards," Lawrence said.
Systematic appraisal can aid informed judgment on guideline quality: guideline recommendations can only be rigorously tested by incorporating them in the development of interventions for evaluation in randomised trials.
Findings can inform more rigorously designed studies of the intervention.
This rigorously designed trial will inform policy decisions regarding supportive strategies for food insecure PLHIV in the early stages of treatment.
