On 13 December 2005, the UNAIDS Reference Group on Estimates, Modelling and Projections reviewed results of the application of the BED-assay for estimation of HIV-1 incidence in surveillance settings, and in selected validation studies. Data were presented from studies in Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa, Rwanda, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Thailand, and from additional laboratory validatio...

OBJECTIVE To perform a systematic review of validation studies of blood pressure measuring devices done using the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol (ESH-IP) since its publication in 2002. METHODS Major aspects of ESH-IP studies are described. A review of the ESH-IP performance, problems and violations in its application, and the effect of applying several more stringent ...

background: infertile couples are faced with problems that affect their marital life. infertility treatment is expensive and time consuming and occasionally isn’t simply possible. prediction models for infertility treatment have been proposed and prediction of treatment success is a new field in infertility treatment. because prediction of treatment success is a new need for infertile couples, ...

This article discusses two meta-analyses on randomized response technique (RRT) studies, the first on 6 individual validation studies and the second on 32 comparative studies. The meta-analyses focus on the performance of RRTs compared to conventional question-and-answer methods. The authors use the percentage of incorrect answers as effect size for the individual validation studies and the sta...