Agencies funding clinical trials demand a clearly stated research question, evidence – often in the form of a pilot study – supporting the sample size, and a statement justifying the analysis.
Questions should be derived from a clearly stated theoretical basis, and the health-care context should be clearly described, to allow for appropriate interpretation of responses.
Does it have a clearly stated purpose?
"They were for the U.S. -- a fact clearly stated in the question..
A summary of the agreed quality assessment results, using the NCAW, are provided in Additional File 3 and further details can be found in Additional Files 1 and 2. All articles clearly stated the research question, study type and outcome factors.
This study also identified the importance of data validation as evidenced by misinterpretation of clearly stated and defined questions.
3) Ecological studies: To be classified in this category, studies had to apply one or more spatial regression methods to address aetiological questions with the question clearly stated in the study objective.
These instructions explained the aim of the validation, and pointed out particular questions to the decision-makers, such as 'Do all questions apply?', 'Do you miss any questions?' and 'Are the questions clearly stated?'.
To check the possibility of completing a measurement within 1 h, and to determine whether all questions were clearly stated, a pilot test was conducted before data collection began.
Our scoring system included the following questions, 1) Was the trial design clearly stated?, 2) Selection bias questions: Was the Patient selection process clearly stated?, If the trial was an RCT, were patient randomly allocated to the therapeutic intervention?
Critics dismiss that finding, noting that a poll released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops found that when the poll question clearly stated that human embryos were destroyed, 39% supported federal funding for such research.
