Table 6.

Tuberculosis research projects generated through SORT IT courses in the Asia Pacific Region: 2009–2018.

Characteristics	Number	(%)
Tuberculosis projects undertaken	177
Projects completed and manuscripts submitted to journals a	158	(89)
Papers published in peer-reviewed journals b	117	(74)
Papers eligible for policy and practice assessment c	111
Papers assessed for policy and practice impact d	101	(91)
Papers judged to have had an impact on policy and practice e	71	(70)

^a percentage of tuberculosis projects undertaken that were submitted to journals; ^b percentage of papers submitted to journals that were published (this is a cross-sectional analysis and several papers are still under peer review); ^c number of submitted papers eligible for policy/practice assessment (this takes place 18 months after submission to a journal); ^d percentage of eligible papers that were assessed for policy and practice; ^e percentage of assessed papers judged to have an impact on policy and practice (judgement based on self-assessment and follow-up calls from the Centre for Operational Research at the Union).