We included allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation as the test intervention harvested from any source of matched sibling donor and serving as a first-line therapy.
Also, the methodology of included studies varied with regard to the length of follow-up after a meeting, follow-up intervals, type and number of data sources, and criteria of matching between abstracts and subsequent full reports.
For all studies, we extracted the following data from original publications: first author and year of publication; distribution of genotypes for each polymorphism among cases and controls; characteristics of the study design and the study population (study base, numbers and mean age of cases and controls, TB diagnosis, HIV status, source of controls, matching criteria and host ethnicity).
Many outbreak investigations successfully traced food handlers as a source of contamination matching the strains of S. aureus in food products and handlers.
In this framework it is necessary to provide a traffic source with the capability of matching the traffic characteristics, Tspec, declared to the network.
The study participants highlighted, however, specific suggestions for overcoming these barriers including having one central referral source (eliminating the barrier of matching insurance status with program), having a referral coordinator, and having reimbursement for tobacco counseling as a billable code.
"There are different potential funding sources," Feger said, likening the process of matching those sources to the terminal's elements to putting together a fruit salad.
Those embryos could be used as a source of genetically matched cells for therapy.
Although the parliamentarians condemned reproductive cloning, they left open the door to the creation of embryos as a source of genetically matched ES cells--so-called therapeutic cloning--by calling for a 3-year moratorium on the practice.
This chapter presents several methods of matching a given source to a given load.
