p eople’s business credit program (kur) has been launched to alleviate poverty through provision of micro financing to micro entrepreneurs in indonesia this study aims to estimate the impact of kur program using cross-sectional data and propensity score matching technique (psm). the survey was conducted on 332 household entrepreneurs, consisting of 155 kur receivers and 177 non-kur receivers. r...

heart failure (hf) is a common disease with high health care costs and high mortality rate knowledge of the health-related quality of life (qol) outcomes of hf may guide decision making and be useful in assessing new therapies for population. yet little is known about qol of hf patients in iran. objectives: to assess health related qol of patients with hf with two different instrument and to co...

Methods A one-day prevalence survey in 2008 was conducted in 36 hospitals representing three different hospital levels across Vietnam. Medical records of all inpatients were reviewed to collect demographics, number and antibiotic class, and indications for antibiotic prescription. Based on the guidelines of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, USA, reasons fo...

Cross-sectional analysis of longitudinal MRI data might be sub-optimal as each dataset is analyzed independently. In this study, we evaluate how much variability can be reduced by analyzing structural volume changes of longitudinal data using longitudinal analysis. We propose a two-part pipeline that consists of longitudinal registration and longitudinal classification. The longitudinal registr...

OBJECTIVES An expectation of research is that participants should give fully informed consent. However, there is also a need to maximise recruitment to ensure representativeness. We explored the impact of passive or active parental consent on consent, completion rates and on dietary data quality in a survey among children aged 11-12 years. SETTING Six middle schools in North-East England. P...