A practice-centred approach to evaluation is supported by a participative approach to evaluation design, data collection and analysis because one of its primary aims is to identify and engage those people 'best placed' to see 'when' and 'how' technology-related changes materialise.
Because the data collection and analysis of this study were conducted by a single researcher, a recoding process was conducted 1 month after the first coding as a cross-analysis to eliminate possible subjectivity and bias, and to enhance the validity and reliability of the coded data.
Because of differences in data collection and management of newly diagnosed patients within TEDDY, SEARCH, and the population-based registries, we used two definitions of DKA to ensure appropriate comparisons (Table 2).
We excluded eighty one trials from our review because they contained incomplete information on the drug regimen, number of pregnancies, or the duration of data collection and four because only a partial report or abstract was available.
However, most of the early research using SAMs, including CGE models, is for a single country and region because of the limitations for data collection and the difficulty of analytical tools' application.
Some time span existed between data collection and the writing of this paper, because it had not been planned originally to produce a separate paper specifically focusing on the role of guidelines applied to patients with multimorbidity.
Of the 506 patients recruited, eight were excluded because of unsatisfactory data collection, and 20 patients withdrew their consent during the period of data collection, for a total of 478 patients for whom data were available for the present analysis.
Because of the nature of data collection and study design it has been difficult to assess the real effect of hormone replacement therapy on breast cancer risk.
The local ethics committee approved the study (Identifier: BB 133/10) and waived a written informed consent because of the anonymous data collection and the quality saving and observing character of the study.
This, in course, may have a sort of chilling effect on asylum-seekers and migrants, causing them not to seek out services because of fear of data collection and sharing.
