Sentence examples for a poor study from inspiring English sources

For example a gold standard study (in the jargon of medical research, a randomised, controlled trial) would be given an A* rating and high weight and a poor study is graded as "must try harder" and given a low weight.

Scientific publications stemming from a poor study design or simply reporting insufficient information can mislead readers when interpreting study outcomes.

Patients were eliminated by their PCPs if deemed ineligible or a poor study candidate (such as having severe psychiatric illness, etc).. PCPs were kept engaged through regular updates at provider meetings and through communications by the community-PI.

Indeed, the failure of many proposed cancer biomarkers once validated in clinical trials is mainly ascribable to a poor study design adopted during the discovery phase, which, in most of the cases, did not include cohorts of patients sufficiently large and independent (Poste, 2011).

If the heterogeneity is not a consequence of poor study design it should be welcomed as a possibility to optimize treatment benefits for different patient categories.

As a true assessment of a study's methodological quality relies on good reporting, we have to conclude that the poor methodological quality of the papers in this review may actually reflect a combination of poor study design as well as poor reporting.

One study had a poor, four studies had a medium and one study had an excellent methodological quality score (see table 4).

One study had a poor, two studies had a medium and three studies had an excellent treatment quality score (see table 3).

A bias is a systematic error resulting from poor study design or issues associated with conduct in the collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting of data.

In our opinion this is a poor quality study but its authors know enough to be dangerous.

They observed that a positive mortality outcome with GDT was associated with a poor quality study.