We graded the results based on four criteria: availability, cost, ease of use, and the time it took us to find what we wanted.
Environmental decision-making in offshore oil and gas (OOG) operations can be extremely complex due to conflicting objectives or criteria, availability of vague and uncertain information, and interdependency among multiple decision-makers.
The three ODs were chosen on the basis of the following criteria: availability of information on poverty prevalence, availability of public and private health care providers, and presence of a Health Equity Fund HEFF).
These fulfilled the following selection criteria: availability of clinical practice guidelines, highly prevalent, and proven link with gender differences, the disease should be initially treated by GPs.
Variation in screening rates across states could be explained by differences in CDC funding levels, eligibility criteria, availability of other resources, clinical costs, grantee infrastructure for management and service delivery, recruitment strategies, and the number of eligible women [ 10, 15].
Finally, in the present paper, one disease-specific PRO for children and four PROs for adults were examined according to the inclusion criteria (availability in more than 2 European languages, self-report and accessibility).
The study [ 30] which sought to improve childbirth implemented a care model based on five criteria (availability of resources, the physical environment of the maternity ward, clinical experience and culture and correspondence with women's needs and requirements).
Seventy five cases of HPV-positive oropharyngeal SCC were identified from 1983 to 2007 and satisfied the following inclusion criteria: availability of formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue, p16 immunohistochemistry and HPV in situ hybridization positivity, presence of tumor areas with >50% represented by cancer cells, and extraction of adequate DNA.
Prostate cancer patients were selected for the study according to the following criteria: availability of both tumour and normal tissue for each patient, presence of adequate amount of stroma in both normal and tumour tissues for efficient selection for tissue microarray construction (TMA), and absence of chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
* Items for which review specific details were added to QUADAS +The item relating to reference standard was not assessed for this review Agreement between reviewers and the final consensus rating was over 80% for all but four items: selection criteria, availability of clinical information, uninterpretable test results and withdrawals.
