We examined the abstracts to check if methodological quality was mentioned in any of the sections (background, methods, results and conclusions).
Though this stochastic analysis addresses intrinsic uncertainty, sensitivity analysis is still appropriate to check on methodological uncertainty, specifically uncertainty arising from data imputation and from different forms of endoscopy.
As conclusions are influenced largely by the methods used and the results produced in a review, we first examined every included review to check if methodological quality of included studies had been assessed using the recommended tool, QUADAS or QUADAS-2 [ 10, 11], or any other tool that the authors specified as a system to assess risk of bias.
They will check the key methodological component of project; whether enrolment has been adequate, whether randomization has been done.
However, it should be noted that although comparison of subjects recruited from each source was not an analytic focus at the global level, such comparisons do provide a methodological check of bias at the city level.
Differences between groups for participant characteristics and methodological checks were performed using paired t-tests or the non-parametric equivalent.
We would expect these to exhibit highest promiscuity and they would thus be an important methodological cross-check.
✓, fulfilled satisfactorily the methodological criteria (1 check point); ≠, fulfilled partially the methodological criteria (0.5 check point); ✘, did not fulfill the methodological criteria (0 check point).
We developed a check-list to assess the methodological quality of the studies based on the check-list of Drummond et al. [ 20] and the health technology assessment disease management instrument of Steuten et al. [ 21].
Male/81/Mynaging) My sister is methodological … she checks, she's online and she is following all the time and whichever is the cheapest … a month ago we swopped from [energy supplier 1] to [energy supplier 2] … she tracks them all (OP11. Male/65/Getting by).
