The latter paper considered 61 strains, many of them not having the sequencing status of "completed".
Fifteen of the 20 publications were from a trial with a status of "completed" in CTG [ 9- 19, 21- 24].
The publication status of completed or discontinued RCTs was classified as "published" if a full-text paper on final study results (completed trials) or interim results (discontinued trials) was available, and "unpublished" if this was not the case.
We classified the publication status of completed or discontinued trials as "published" if a full-text paper on final study results (completed trials) or interim results (discontinued trials) was identified in the literature search, and "unpublished" if this was not the case.
A questionnaire was applied to identify some CHWs socio-demographic characteristics, such as age, sex, civil status, number of completed school years, profession, place of work, number of years as a CHW, number of diarrhoeal diseases training courses completed.
At baseline, socio-demographic data (marital status, highest level of completed education, current employment), reasons to participate in the study, complete family history of diabetes in first and second degree relatives, illness and co-morbidity in the past, and use of medication will be assessed.
Second, it seems that monovalent approaches in isolation are unlikely to attain status of complete therapy due to complex interplay between different inflammatory pathways.
The status of complete remission was based on the assessment made by the treating oncologist based on established criteria (Durie et al, 2006) with corroboration by pathology results.
Before a status of complete response (CR) or PR was assigned, the tumour measurements were confirmed by another scan no less than, and as close as possible to, 4 weeks following initial documentation of an objective response.
This result is in accordance with the current belief that more stringent criteria for remission could identify a more robust status of complete disease control compared with more permissive criteria (eg, DAS28).
The predisposing characteristics investigated here were age and marital status (married or other), employment status (employed or unemployed), status of education completed (high or low), language preferred for reading (English or both Arabic and English or Arabic and other languages), living conditions (uncrowded, crowded housing).
