Though the Tanzanian respondents did not express themselves as trial citizens, their usual experience of malaria management was certainly enhanced by the specialised, dedicated trial team.
English translations of the abstracts and PDFs of the full Korean articles of identified trials are contributed to the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field specialised register of controlled trials, and trial citations are forwarded to The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) to increase their accessibility to systematic reviewers.
Up to now, one study described the activity of one REC specialised in multicentre trials and three other studies were carried out on the fate of protocols approved by one committee but nothing was known at a nation level.
A WHO specialised librarian and the trial search coordinator of the Cochrane Collaboration Pregnancy and Childbirth Group developed the search strategy for each of the electronic databases according to their specific subject headings or searching structure in collaboration with the reviewers.
"This court, with all due respect to the people in it, is not specialised to deal with the trial of the president of the republic.
Searching specialised databases like CareSearch and trial registers were the most important additional strategies after searching electronic bibliographic databases.
In five trials of complementary provider specialised ambulatory care roles, 16 patient/provider outcomes favouring nurse practitioner plus usual care, and 16 were equivalent.
In two trials of alternative provider specialised ambulatory care roles, nurse practitioners were equivalent to physicians in all but three patient outcomes and one health system outcome favouring nurse practitioner care.
Among these factors, SELENA SLEDAI is a reliable index of SLE disease activity, although it is used primarily in clinical trials and in certain highly specialised centres.
25 To manage the problem of research scatter in allied health, specialised databases that collate and critically appraise randomised trials and systematic reviews relevant to occupational therapy (www.otseeker.com) and physical therapy (www.pedro.org.au) have been developed and are well used.
