منابع مشابه
Randomised trials in developing countries
Professor Trevor Duke and colleagues at the Centre for International Child Health, University of Melbourne, have made a remarkable contribution to international child health. Over the past 11 years, they have undertaken annual structured searches for published reports of controlled trials of interventions addressing child health in developing countries, and assembled summaries in a compendium t...
متن کاملRandomised trials in child health in developing countries 2011.
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether (i) supplementation of oral 100,000 iu of vitamin D(3) (cholecalciferol) along with antibiotics will reduce the duration of illness in children with pneumonia; (ii) supplementation will reduce the risk of repeat episodes. METHODS: Double-blind individually randomised placebo-controlled trial in an inner-city hospital in Kabul, of 453 children aged 1-36 months, d...
متن کاملRandomised Trials in Child and Adolescent Health in Developing Countries
BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is the leading cause of child mortality under five years of age worldwide. For pneumonia with chest indrawing in children aged 3-59 months, injectable penicillin and hospitalization was the recommended treatment. This increased the health care cost and exposure to nosocomial infections. We compared the clinical and cost outcomes of a seven day treatment with oral amoxicill...
متن کاملTrials in developing countries.
Good clinical trials can be carried out in the developing countries but ethical issues concerning the trials are frequently brought up for international debate. The concern has its own merit but can be amended if investigators (local and international) pay serious attention to these criticisms and work out the way that will most benefit the trial participants. Although scientific progress is im...
متن کاملEuropean & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
EDCTP was established by the European Union in 2003. The first EDCTP program ran until 2015 and focused on HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. It supported numerous clinical trials that aimed to have a significant impact on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of these diseases. In light of significant unmet medical needs, the scope of EDCTP was extended in 2014, now covering neglected infec...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306163