It mainly concerns comparison, outcome, subgroup, results, baseline data, number of missing participants, statistical methods and appropriateness of these methods, and others.
Outcomes of interest, statistical methods, baseline data, number of participants analyzed, and effects found (Consort items 6, 8, 12, 15, 16, 17, and 18) are presented in Table 2. Table 3 presents elements of study validity found to be important: sample size, recruitment, random allocation, blinding of assessor, participant flow (Consort items 7, 14, 9, 11, and 13).
However, our baseline data and number of culture negative cases are very similar to previous studies.
Since patients from some of the centers have not filled in every questionnaire and some patients have had only baseline data, the number of complete questionnaires for each language and each visit are shown in Table 2.
We developed an abstraction tables that includes year of publication, patients' baseline characteristics, and diagnostic study data (numbers of true positive, false positive, false negative, and true negative test results).
Results, including the statistically significantly worse SF36 physical component scores, persisted across prespecified subgroups based on age, sex, race, baseline CVD status, glucose trial assignment, BP tertiles at baseline, and baseline number of BP medications (data not shown).
Therefore, reliable baseline data on the number of child deaths occurring in the community and the number of children treated for pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria in the community are not available for most districts that implemented iCCM before 2010.
The baseline data on total number of patients on different regimens cure rates, treatment defaulter rates, reasons for default and the number of patients who consume alcohol were obtained from the study sites.
In addition to demographic characteristics, our baseline data included a number of clinical characteristics including diabetes duration, specific diabetes treatment type, and treatment adherence.
Baseline data on the number of teeth present and/or denture use and chewing ability were collected using self-administered questionnaires.
For Mtwara Rural district, with no baseline data, we obtained numbers of households in each village, which serves as a proxy for population.
