IndiaClen Series
Development and psychometric validation of the Brief Intellectual Disability Scale for use in low–health resource, high-burden countries
To develop and validate a concise, parent-completed Brief Intellectual Disability Scale (BIDS) for children in low–disability resource and high–disability care burden countries.Introduction: Challenges to clinical epidemiology in India
It is indeed a great privilege to be associated with the effort of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (JCE) to bring out an Indian edition. The selection of articles for this edition has been primarily from the clinical epidemiology units (CEUs) of the Indian Clinical Epidemiology Network (IndiaCLEN) and therefore does not truly reflect the diversity of research in the country. However, this issue of the journal reflects the pattern of clinical epidemiologic research carried out in India. I believe that each country brings its own priorities to the fore, and it would be interesting to study the response to research challenges faced by the clinical epidemiologists in different regions of the world.Invasive pneumococcal disease associated with high case fatality in India
To study the seroepidemiology and antimicrobial resistance pattern of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in older subjects who are admitted to hospitals in India.Longer duration of mechanical ventilation was found to be associated with ventilator-associated pneumonia in children aged 1 month to 12 years in India
To determine primarily (1) the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) among ventilated patients aged 1 month to 12 years and secondarily (2) the risk factors for VAP and (3) common organisms causing VAP.Development and normative validation of Developmental Assessment Tool for Anganwadis for 3- to 4-year-old children (DATA-II)
To develop, standardize, and validate a developmental scale for children, 3–4 years old, attending Anganwadis (Integrated Child Development Scheme) in India, as a follow-up assessment, using a normative approach.Zinc and copper supplementation are not cost-effective interventions in the treatment of acute diarrhea
Diarrhea is one of the principal causes of morbidity and mortality among children in the developing world. Cumulative costs of treating diarrhea would be high and would further increase if zinc was used as an adjunct to treatment of acute diarrhea.Evidence-based medicine in India
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the integration of current best evidence with clinical experience and patients' values and preferences in clinical decision-making process [1]. Clinical experience has played a key role in clinical decision-making process since ages. But research evidence and patients' preferences have received a variable degree of attention in the process. With the introduction of EBM, the clinicians are exhorted to consider all the three factors in the process.Nasopharyngeal swabs of school children, useful in rapid assessment of community antimicrobial resistance patterns in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae
The present study evaluates the feasibility of rapid surveillance of community antimicrobial resistance (AMR) patterns of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae in India using nasopharyngeal swabs (NPSs) of school children. It compares the AMR data obtained with that of invasive and nasopharyngeal (NP) isolates studied previously. No one has done such surveillance since our study so we decided to publish and more clearly demonstrate the feasibility of the methodology we did.Risk factors for tuberculosis among health care workers in South India: a nested case–control study
The epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) among health care workers (HCWs) in India remains under-researched. This study is a nested case–control design assessing the risk factors for acquiring TB among HCWs in India.Reporting of methods was better in the Clinical Trials Registry-India than in Indian journal publications
We sought to evaluate if editorial policies and the reporting quality of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) had improved since our 2004–05 survey of 151 RCTs in 65 Indian journals, and to compare reporting quality of protocols in the Clinical Trials Registry-India (CTRI).
