Those "producing the most valuable scientific information," they agreed, should be allowed to compete for continuing funding.
The symposia have provided valuable continuing education and opportunities for local and state public health and health care professionals to meet and share experiences as they address critical issues in their communities.
Hands-on endoscopy workshops are popular and valuable sources for the continuing medical education of endoscopists.
These different utilization patterns of radiology modalities between physicians and non-physicians provide valuable information for the continuing discussion of the appropriate use of limited health care resources.
In some settings, the resistance levels to previously recommended first-line antibiotics may have remained low and these antibiotics might be valuable to continue to use for treatment of gonorrhoea in these specific settings.
Valuable resources continue to be used for practices that are out of date, have no demonstrable benefit or are even harmful, while interventions that have been shown to be both inexpensive and effective have not been widely implemented [ 3].
Valuable resources continue to be used in some developing countries to fund practices of unknown effectiveness, for example electronic fetal monitoring during labour [ 7].
We thank Zhu Linghuan, Gao Zhi, Hua Li, Wang Junhua, Bemena Leo Duick, Mukama Omar Abdelmoneim Ali, Ahmed Mousa, Sherif Abed, Amr Bakry, Marwan Rashed and Yang Sun for their valuable assistance and continued support during work.
"The stakes are high for us to do a good job, to make this a more valuable property or continue to keep up its profile".
If individuals continue working in ECD sites and within the community, their skills will continue to be valuable for the community.
