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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(1):34-37; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn272
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Cochrane Column

Taryn Young

RYTD Consultancy, PO Box 38580, Pinelands 7430, South Africa. E-mail: tyoung@rytdconsult.co.za

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

The aim of the Column is to highlight Cochrane Reviews of relevance to public health, and to stimulate debate on relevance, feasibility and acceptability. This month, we feature the review on insecticide-treated bednets for the prevention of malaria in pregnancy. Juliana Yartey provided comments on the review relevance and we asked Mike Clarke to outline on the features of cluster randomized trials as these are widely used to evaluate health care interventions. He also expands on the methodology to use when cluster randomized trials are included in systematic reviews.

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The Cochrane Collaboration (http://www.cochrane.org) is an international, non-profit organization that prepares and disseminates up-to-date systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions in order to help people make well-informed decisions. Systematic reviews aim to answer focused healthcare questions by systematically identifying and evaluating all relevant research studies and synthesizing their results.

 

Insecticide-treated nets for preventing malaria in pregnancy

C Gamble1,*, JP Ekwaru2 and FO ter Kuile3

1University of Liverpool, Centre for Medical Statistics and Health Evaluation, Liverpool, UK.
2Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Uganda, Global AIDS Program, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Disease, and Tuberculosis Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Entebbe, Uganda.
3Department of Tropical Child Health, University of Liverpool, UK.

* Corresponding author. Centre for Medical Statistics and Health Evaluation, University of Liverpool, Shelley's Cottage, Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GS, UK. E-mail: c.gamble@liv.ac.uk

Approximately 50 million pregnant women are exposed to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Juliana Yartey

Department of Making Pregnancy Safer, World Health Organization, Geneva. E-mail: yarteyj@who.int

Mike Clarke

School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, D'Olier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.


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