Regardless of the decision-making method chosen, a formal, consistent review process that evaluates cost, compares products, examines implications, analyzes risk, uses evidence, and includes safety and outcome measures is vital to success.
Several studies have tried to identify windows of sensitivity to air pollutants during pregnancy, by testing associations between trimester-specific exposure variables and birth weight, without yielding a consistent picture (reviewed by Slama et al. 2008a).
Therefore, there is a need for regular and consistent reviews of the published studies.
"A consistent and predictable review process will stimulate investment here at home and keep jobs from going overseas," Dr. Jeffery Shuren, the director of the agency's medical device division, told reporters.
To provide a consistent context, the review is focused on enforcement of environmental policies directed at industrial sources of pollution, because this is the main focus of the related literature.
The purpose of this benchmark is to create support for a better understanding of social marketing that takes into account the 8 basic SMBC principles: customer or participant orientation, behaviour, theory, insight, exchange, competition, segmentation and methods mix, as well as the promotion of a consistent approach to review and evaluate projects [ 26].
The methodological challenges faced in conducting these reviews arose from our goal of trying to establish and adhere to a consistent methodology for reviewing literature from diverse fields of research.
A training exercise was undertaken to establish a consistent process for reviewing the title and abstracts against the eligibility criteria.
The methodological challenges arose from our goal of structuring a consistent methodology for reviewing literature from diverse fields of research.
This requires that any supporting diagrams are easy to interpret and creates the need for such diagrams to share a consistent logic across reviews.
