We hope the House and Senate conferees will strip out the military detention and trial provisions, but we are pessimistic.
By embedding their institution in its host community, obtaining money from a funder committed to long-term research capacity strengthening, and securing financing for post-trial provision of medicines from the Global Fund, SMRU investigators have been able to adhere to 'research for health justice' and will make benefits available to the host community post-trial.
In smaller trials provision of an opportunity to enter free text should be considered.
In all the heart failure trials, provision of education was part of the interventions with ongoing phone contact by study staff for counselling and education in addition to the monitoring of signs and symptoms.
For example, a review of trials conducted between 2004 and 2007 in tuberculosis (n=23), malaria (n=67), and HIV/AIDS (n=222) in developed (58%) and developing countries (42%), found that only 1.3% mentioned post-trial provisions.
There is no necessity for little children to come to court to undergo a cross-examination live at trial because provision for pre-recording exists in section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, if only the government could be persuaded to bring it into force.
The initial randomized trial included provision of either simvastatin 40 mg or placebo once daily for a maximum of seven days or until hospital discharge, whichever occurred first.
Advice was provided only to the physicians in 68% (13 trials) [ 35, 39– 43, 44, 46, 46– 52], while only one trial involved provision of advice to other healthcare practitioners (pharmacists) in addition to physicians [ 46].
Recruiting GPs identify eligible women in their clinical practice and invite them to consider participation in the trial, after provision of sufficient information to make an informed decision (see appendix 1 (Additional file 1) for the plain language statement).
The subgroups used were: trial setting, provision of hand washing material (soap) as part of intervention, type of promotional activity employed), and quality characteristics (whether outcome assessors were blinded).
