One strategy would be to encourage peer reviewers to check adherence to the relevant reporting guideline.
During the treatment, therapists had group discussion once a month to check adherence to the program and to plan for future sessions.
The ICL will receive training in the Compassion Intervention and supervision from the programme team to check adherence to the Compassion manual.
A person independent of the site, such as the trial manager, visits a trial site to check adherence to the protocol, to check informed consent documentation is complete and to verify events recorded on case report forms.
The concentrations of rivaroxaban or apixaban may require determination in specific clinical situation such as deterioration of renal function, in the elderly or oldest population, before surgery or in acute clinical situations, during recurrent events or during bleeding complications or to check adherence to therapy [ 19, 20].
All treatment groups will be audiotaped with 10%% checked to ensure adherence to manualised treatment protocols, using the Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Adherence Scale for MBCT group [ 30].
Systematic differences between observers may be responsible in part for some of the poor reliability achieved, and could be addressed to an extent by further training, strengthening of study protocols, and routine quality control checks to ensure adherence to protocols.
Patients were followed at 2, 4, 8, 14, 20 and 26 weeks to provide ongoing care, check adherence to the insulin regimen, fasting blood sugars (measured by the patient), insulin dose and titration and adverse events.
