No exclusion criteria of language, location or study quality were applied.
Instruction was provided for rating of the MLCDP (version 1) on a four point Likert type ordinal scale (1 = Strongly agree, 2 = Agree, 3 = Disagree and 4 = Strongly disagree) for each of the four criteria of language clarity, completeness, scaling and relevance.
Although the term is not entirely satisfactory because it distinguishes by the sole criterion of written language, it has several advantages over the loosely equivalent terms primitive, preliterate, preurban, savage, and others.
The editors' decision to include the voices of heroic liberalism also means there is too much verse that is, by all conventional criteria — vividness of language, ability to surprise, techniques of rhyme and rhythm — very bad.
Using the inclusion criteria of English language, adult patients, primary article, minimum 50 patients, primary focus on prognostic factors, and mortality outcome, 104 articles were identified.
Thirty-two of these articles met the inclusion criteria in terms of language (1) and content of keywords in the title or summary (2).
Exclusion criteria were: Lack of language competency and cognitive impairment such as dementia, serious mental retardation or other mental incapacities preventing the individual from giving an informed written consent.
The country of birth was identified by a Somali assistant nurse and the head researcher, using the criterion of surname and language.
At 6 years of age a further group of TEDS twins was selected such that two thirds of them met criteria for "language risk," whereas the remaining one third were a low-risk sample (see Bishop et al., 2006).
The NWR test was administered to the family in a German version to ascertain if they also met one of the standardized criteria for language impairment.
