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1. Scoping review and characteristics of publicly available checklists for assessing clinical trial feasibility (Publications)

   Scoping review and characteristics of publicly available checklists for assessing clinical trial feasibility

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   BACKGROUND: Whether there is sufficient capacity and capability for the successful conduct and delivery of a clinical trial should be assessed by several stakeholders according to transparent and evid

2. What makes health systems resilient? A qualitative analysis of the perspectives of Swiss NGOs (Publications)

   What makes health systems resilient? A qualitative analysis of the perspectives of Swiss NGOs

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   BACKGROUND: Resilience has become relevant than ever before with the advent of increasing and intensifying shocks on the health system and its amplified effects due to globalization. Using the example

3. Reporting quality of clinical trial protocols: a repeated cross-sectional study about the Adherence to SPIrit recommendations in Switzerland, CAnada... (Publications)

   Reporting quality of clinical trial protocols: a repeated cross-sectional study about the Adherence to SPIrit recommendations in Switzerland, CAnada and GErmany (ASPIRE-SCAGE)

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   OBJECTIVES: Comprehensive protocols are key for the planning and conduct of randomised clinical trials (RCTs). Evidence of low reporting quality of RCT protocols led to the publication of the Standard

4. Predicting complicated appendicitis based on clinical findings: the role of Alvarado and appendicitis inflammatory response scores (Publications)

   Predicting complicated appendicitis based on clinical findings: the role of Alvarado and appendicitis inflammatory response scores

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   PURPOSE: The pre-interventional differentiation between complicated and uncomplicated appendicitis is decisive for treatment. In the context of conservative therapy, the definitive diagnosis of uncomp

5. Performance of a rapid immuno-chromatographic test (<em>Schistosoma</em> ICT IgG-IgM) for detecting <em>Schistosoma</em>-specific antibodies in sera... (Publications)

   Performance of a rapid immuno-chromatographic test (<em>Schistosoma</em> ICT IgG-IgM) for detecting <em>Schistosoma</em>-specific antibodies in sera of endemic and non-endemic populations

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   BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis, an acute and chronic parasitic disease caused by human pathogenic Schistosoma species, is a neglected tropical disease affecting more than 220 million people worldwide. Fo

6. Health insurance coverage in low-income and middle-income countries: progress made to date and related changes in private and public health... (Publications)

   Health insurance coverage in low-income and middle-income countries: progress made to date and related changes in private and public health expenditure

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   INTRODUCTION: Several low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have implemented health insurance programmes to foster accessibility to healthcare and reduce catastrophic household health expendi

7. Wastewater-based estimation of the effective reproductive number of SARS-CoV-2 (Publications)

   Wastewater-based estimation of the effective reproductive number of SARS-CoV-2

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   BACKGROUND: The effective reproductive number, Re, is a critical indicator to monitor disease dynamics, inform regional and national policies, and estimate the effectiveness of interventions. It descr

8. Exposure to job-related violence among young female sex workers in urban slums of Southwest Nigeria (Publications)

   Exposure to job-related violence among young female sex workers in urban slums of Southwest Nigeria

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   BACKGROUND: In Nigeria, many young girls are engaged in commercial sex work as a means of livelihood and support of dependent relatives. Although studies have documented some of the violence related i

9. Paediatric refugees from Ukraine: guidance for health care providers (Publications)

   Paediatric refugees from Ukraine: guidance for health care providers

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   BACKGROUND: With the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Army in February 2022, refugees, the majority of whom are women and children, started fleeing the war to neighbouring countries. Even before the

10. Attitudes, practices, and determinants of community care-seeking behaviours for fever/malaria episodes in the context of the implementation of... (Publications)

    Attitudes, practices, and determinants of community care-seeking behaviours for fever/malaria episodes in the context of the implementation of multiple first-line therapies for uncomplicated malaria in the health district of Kaya, Burkina Faso

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    BACKGROUND: Malaria case management relies on World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), and a continuous understanding of local community knowledge, atti