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Kerala study co-designs supervised toothbrushing through Anganwadi centres

A mixed-methods study of 168 Kerala Anganwadi workers and helpers found strong motivation but widespread training and ...
BIOENGINEER

Saskatchewan co-design study identifies content for a healthcare training toolkit for queer older adults

A qualitative co-design study in Saskatchewan identified three themes shaping a planned educational toolkit for healthcare ...
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Vaccine makers call for alternative study designs for COVID vaccines

Regulators need to facilitate new ways of clinically validating COVID-19 vaccines now that effective shots are being given around the world, Thomas Triomphe, executive vice president of Sanofi Pasteur ...
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Estimating Effectiveness of Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccines: The “Test-Negative” Design

What is the test-negative study design? In recent years the “test-negative” design has become the most prevalent approach for studying and monitoring VE of COVID-19 and influenza vaccines in “real ...
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FDA issues draft guidance on study designs using real-world data

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued draft guidance to industry on how real-world data (RWD) could be used in clinical trials and how it could be incorporated into the design of ...