Publication search
with Evaluation as keyword

Evaluation of the Implementation of the Healthy Start Program: Findings from the 2016 National Healthy Start Program Sur...

Published in Maternal and Child Health Journal

Objectives The Healthy Start Program has taken a community-based approach to improving maternal and child health outcomes among underserved populations for 25 years. Although the program has been evaluated in the past, it has not undergone a national evaluation since it was transformed in 2014. The purpose of this study is to present data from an e...

Evaluation of the tuberculosis surveillance system in the Ashaiman municipality, in Ghana

Published in The Pan African Medical Journal

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death from an infectious illness globally with an estimated 10.4 million new cases and 1.4 million deaths in 2015. In Ghana, from the 2013 TB prevalence survey conducted by the National Tuberculosis Control Programme, the incidence is estimated as 165 per 100,000 population and a mortality rat...

An Improved Recommender for Travel Itineraries

Given the vast amount of information, including the numerous points-of-interest (POIs) and the various hotels, available on travel websites such as tripadvisor or booking, a recommender system would help users, who are planning their next trip, filter out unnecessary information based on their requirements. We improved our previous work on a recomm...

Structured analysis, evaluation and report of the emergency response to a terrorist attack in Wuerzburg, Germany using a...

Published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

BackgroundUntil now there has been a reported lack of systematic reports and scientific evaluations of rescue missions during terror attacks. This however is urgently required in order to improve the performance of emergency medical services and to be able to compare different missions with each other. Aim of the presented work was to report the sy...

Evaluation von organisierten Programmen zur Krebsfrüherkennung: Allgemeine Aspekte und aktueller Stand in Deutschland

Published in Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz

Die im Laufe der vergangenen Jahrzehnte zunehmende Erkenntnis, dass Früherkennung nicht immer bzw. nicht nur Nutzen bringt, sondern bei manchen Maßnahmen sogar der Schaden überwiegen kann, hat den Stellenwert der Evaluation von Krebsfrüherkennungsprogrammen grundlegend verändert. Man unterscheidet zwischen einer Endpunktevaluation, bei der die Wirk...

Meta-Analyse der Evaluationsergebnisse psychiatrischer-psychosomatischer Rehabilitation in Österreich

Published in neuropsychiatrie

Ziel der StudieDa in den bisherigen Meta-Analysen zur psychiatrischen-psychosomatischen Rehabilitation kaum Studien österreichischer Rehakliniken berücksichtigt wurden, soll ein systematischer Review mit Meta-Analyse über bisher vorliegende Evaluationsergebnisse österreichischer Rehakliniken durchgeführt werden.MethodikEine systematische Literaturs...

Meet the researchers: an alternative method of engaging patients with research in mesothelioma

Published in Research Involvement and Engagement

Plain English summaryThere are new ways to engage people with science and research but many patient support groups and charitable organisations still hold traditional meetings to provide updates on their activities and to report new developments in their field of interest. These meetings often feature presentations given by medical doctors or, in t...