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March 2016

World Health Organization member states have committed to reducing premature deaths from non-communicable disease by 25% by 2025. Interventions to reduce risk factors including tobacco use, physical inactivity, high blood pressure and obesity that prove safe and efficacious in randomized controlled trials commonly fail when implemented on a broader scale. This challenge to translation is particularly pronounced in low- and middle-income countries, which bear an increasing burden of non-communicable disease. In this month's Editorial, Anushka Patel and Ruth Webster, both of The George Institute for Global Health, discuss strategies to maximize knowledge gain in pragmatic randomized controlled trials (pRCT), which test the effectiveness of health interventions under "real-world" conditions.

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Editorial

Policy Forums

An Uninformative Truth: The Logic of Amarin’s Off-Label Promotion

Spencer Phillips Hey, Aaron S. Kesselheim

Collection Review

Translational Research for Tuberculosis Elimination: Priorities, Challenges, and Actions

Christian Lienhardt, Knut Lönnroth, Dick Menzies, Manica Balasegaram, Jeremiah Chakaya, Frank Cobelens, Jennifer Cohn, Claudia M. Denkinger, Thomas G. Evans, Gunilla Källenius, Gilla Kaplan, Ajay M. V. Kumar, Line Matthiessen, Charles S. Mgone, Valerie Mizrahi, Ya-diul Mukadi, Viet Nhung Nguyen, Anders Nordström, Christine F. Sizemore, Melvin Spigelman, S. Bertel Squire, Soumya Swaminathan, Paul D. Van Helden, Alimuddin Zumla, Karin Weyer, Diana Weil, Mario Raviglione

Research Articles

Comparison of the Schwartz and CKD-EPI Equations for Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate in Children, Adolescents, and Adults: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study

Luciano Selistre, Muriel Rabilloud, Pierre Cochat, Vandréa de Souza, Jean Iwaz, Sandrine Lemoine, Françoise Beyerle, Carlos E. Poli-de-Figueiredo, Laurence Dubourg

Performance of the GeneXpert Ebola Assay for Diagnosis of Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone: A Field Evaluation Study

Amanda E. Semper, M. Jana Broadhurst, Jade Richards, Geraldine M. Foster, Andrew J. H. Simpson, Christopher H. Logue, J. Daniel Kelly, Ann Miller, Tim J. G. Brooks, Megan Murray, Nira R. Pollock

Increased Duration of Paid Maternity Leave Lowers Infant Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Arijit Nandi, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Sam Harper, Alissa Koski, Erin C. Strumpf, Jody Heymann

Global Role and Burden of Influenza in Pediatric Respiratory Hospitalizations, 1982–2012: A Systematic Analysis

Kathryn E. Lafond, Harish Nair, Mohammad Hafiz Rasooly, Fátima Valente, Robert Booy, Mahmudur Rahman, Paul Kitsutani, Hongjie Yu, Guiselle Guzman, Daouda Coulibaly, Julio Armero, Daddi Jima, Stephen R. C. Howie, William Ampofo, Ricardo Mena, Mandeep Chadha, Ondri Dwi Sampurno, Gideon O. Emukule, Zuridin Nurmatov, Andrew Corwin, Jean Michel Heraud, Daniel E. Noyola, Radu Cojocaru, Pagbajabyn Nymadawa, Amal Barakat, Adebayo Adedeji, Marta von Horoch, Remigio Olveda, Thierry Nyatanyi, Marietjie Venter, Vida Mmbaga, Malinee Chittaganpitch, Tran Hien Nguyen, Andros Theo, Melissa Whaley, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Joseph Bresee, Harry Campbell, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Global Respiratory Hospitalizations—Influenza Proportion Positive (GRIPP) Working Group

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