Still, although he considers the findings "amazing," Bruce Link, an epidemiologist at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, cautions that there's no guarantee that the relatively small study will translate seamlessly into good policy.
Yet as the pace of change and the nature of work perennially evolves and quickens, the question of whether or not a child's chosen subjects of study will translate to a job can be answered with hope, but not certainty.
The estimated rate ratios observed in our study will translate into clinically relevant numbers needed to harm in most routine populations of patients taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, who are typically at moderate to high risks for cardiovascular events.
As noted above, we do not know whether the changes evidenced in the current study will translate into improved practice, increased help-seeking or ultimately into a reduction in the rate of deliberate self-harm (and ideally suicide) among students.
20 It remains to be seen if the compliance rates achieved in the present study will translate into improved compliance in general clinical practice compared with the standard multiple daily dose, high tablet burden, 5-ASA regimens currently in use.
Nor is it clear that data from rigorous studies will translate into the real world.
It is unclear how well findings in animal studies will translate to humans as studies indicate that the expression or response of glutamate receptors in human oligodendrocytes may be substantially different (lower expression levels and resistant to excitotoxicity) from those in animals (Wosik et al., 2004; Benarroch, 2009).
The ultimate objective of this study will be to translate these findings into more efficacious therapeutic GCs.
This study will contribute to the knowledge base on what is required to translate evidence into practice in rural settings.
