There were several other factors that might contribute to the heterogeneity, including patient setting, characteristics of patients, presepsin measuring instrument, inclusion criteria, and reference standard [19].
The following items were extracted using a specific sheet which was constructed in advance: authors and year of study, the country, study design, patient setting, number and characteristics of patients, presepsin measuring instrument, cut-off point, prevalence of sepsis, diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, inclusion criteria, and reference standard.
The quality assessment items included in QUADAS are: spectrum composition, description of selection criteria and reference standard, disease progression bias, partial and differential verification, incorporation bias, description of index and reference test execution, test and reference standard review bias, clinical review bias, and description of uninterpretable test results.
The full text of each eligible published study was then independently examined given the inclusion criteria and reference lists manually searched to identify further relevant articles.
Emphysema was defined as sharply delineated low-density area(s) according to the criteria and reference images given by Webb et al. [ 33].
There were several other factors that might contribute to the heterogeneity, including patient setting, characteristics of patients, presepsin measuring instrument, inclusion criteria, and reference standard [ 19].
Wyclif methodically replaces logical and epistemological rules with ontological criteria and references.
References [11, 19 21] focus on the transceiver design optimization criteria and references [22 24] concentrate on criteria for the joint rate and power allocation.
The authors each screened a third of the citations for relevance (based on the inclusion criteria) and references for potential inclusion were discussed within the team.
Selection criteria and references are shown for 24 amino acid substitutions within proteinase K. Group A, wild type plus 5 closest homologs (>90% identity); Group B, 42 homologs (30 90% identity); Group C, 11 thermostable homologs.
The SAFE framework is hierarchical as it is composed of principles, criteria, indicators and reference values in a structured way.
