Details on data collection, characteristics of participants, and data analysis are described in the Technical Appendix.
Their organisational characteristics and components, including the type of provider, funding, accessibility, routine data collection, characteristics of staff and programmes provided to people with mental disorders from the marginalized groups were assessed using the PROMO Tool for Assessment of Services (available online) [ 14].
Data were extracted on the key study characteristics, design, methods of data collection, participant characteristics, results and conclusions drawn by authors.
Social epidemiologists need to assess specific characteristics of places and neighbourhoods through primary data collection (compositional characteristics), paying attention to resources embedded in social networks [ 26].
A comparison of previous studies is limited by methodological differences regarding data collection, sample characteristics and measurements.
Data collection: baseline characteristics, individual hemodynamic parameters, PAO2/FiO2, course of catecholamines, administered volume, lactate, time needed to wean from catecholamines, and outcome.
Recognizing emerging infectious diseases in organ and tissue transplantation is challenging because of nonstandardization of donor evaluations and data collection, pathogen characteristics, and recipient surveillance.
If a participant had repeated contact with 1 person during the 24 hours of data collection, the characteristics of the contacts with this person were summarized.
We extracted the following background information: country, location, urban/rural, year of the publication and data collection, setting characteristics, and method of data collection and calculation of costs and income loss.
A total of 2048 children had parental consent (ie, were not opted out) and child assent to participate in the accelerometer baseline data collection; their characteristics are displayed in table 1.
While subject selection, data collection, demographic characteristics, and risk factors were similar between the two studies [ 4, 8], we controlled for study of origin because of the differing case-control ratios.
