This study provides valuable information because the study sample more accurately reflects the typical elderly population.
It is difficult to compare the magnitudes (Table 3) directly with each other because all three organizations, and this study, provided different types of magnitude.
Therefore, if the answer could not be given because the study provided too little information, a negative score (for example, "no") was given.
BECAUSE they did not, the study provides support to those who never placed much confidence in the S.E.C.'s certification requirement.
Studies with 0 or 100% events in all arms were excluded from the analysis because these studies provide no evidence on relative effects.
The current study provides new insights, because the implementation process under study takes place in a real-life setting.
Note that, because their study provided a list of the PDB identifiers (without a unique ligand identifier), it was difficult to determine what ligands were actually included in the 197-ligand set.
Fourth, we pooled the studies without separating them into their subcohorts of patients with colon cancer and patients with rectal cancer, because no study provided these data separately.
However, these analyses were not possible because only one study provided data on false positive results.
