EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH POLICY IN GERMANY: LACK OF COMMUNICATION AND COORDINATION BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND HEALTH AUTHORITIES?

Evidence-based health policy in Germany: lack of communication and coordination between academia and health authorities?

Abstract Health-care decision making should consider the best available evidence, often in the form of systematic reviews (SRs).The number of existing SRs and their overlap make their identification and use difficult.Decision makers often rely on de novo SRs instead of using existing SRs.We describe two cases of duplicate reviews (minimum volume th

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Mission Reliability-Oriented Selective Maintenance Optimization for Intelligent Multistate Manufacturing Systems With Uncertain Maintenance Quality

Selective maintenance is widely used as a reliability-centered maintenance strategy due to the limited maintenance resources.However, existing selective maintenance studies only consider basic reliability, which cannot systematically describe the operating mechanism of a multistate system, thereby resulting in the inability to obtain an optimal mai

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Factors influencing normalisation and sustainment of the Birmingham Symptom-specific Obstetric Triage System (BSOTS): a qualitative implementation evaluation study with UK maternity health professionals

Abstract Background Maternity triage is the emergency portal to access maternity services for pregnant or newly postnatal women experiencing unexpected complications or concerns.Traditionally women were seen in the order in which they attended maternity services without appropriate organisational and clinical systems in place to prioritise the clin

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RNA-seq, de novo transcriptome assembly and flavonoid gene analysis in 13 wild and cultivated berry fruit species with high content of phenolics

Abstract Background Flavonoids are produced in all flowering plants in a wide range of tissues including in berry fruits.These compounds are of considerable interest for their biological activities, health benefits and potential pharmacological applications.However, transcriptomic and genomic resources for wild and cultivated berry fruit species ar

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