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Finally, it is relevant to differentiate studies with an enriched design from studies with a nonenriched design, especially when comparing active drugs.
It is unknown whether, or to what extent, quality assessments based on existing tools differentiate studies that may yield biased results either by over or underestimating treatment effects.
For cohort and randomized trials, they did not differentiate studies on the basis of time between intervention and post-testing, when applicable.
Similar experiments were performed to differentiate studies from each pair, including AD versus NCs, FTD versus NCs, and AD versus FTD.
Firstly, it included diagnostic considerations and attempted to differentiate studies based upon the nature of the populations being studied, recognising that the benefits of treatment may vary for different underlying causes of shoulder or elbow pain.
Our qualitative synthesis includes a comprehensive critical appraisal of studies, and a time-consuming, formal assessment would be unlikely to meaningfully increase our appreciation of study limitations or how they differentiate studies.
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We used a strict cut-off of 18 years to differentiate study populations; therefore, some studies with older adolescents would be categorized as mixed populations but the actual participants may be relatively homogeneous in terms of physiology or development.
Aim: The aim of the study was an evaluation a possible association between single polymorphic variants of PON1, APOE, ABCA1 and PPARA genes and CAD and looking for specific multigene genotype patterns which differentiate study groups.
This does not, in our opinion, detract from the usefulness of the index or the finding that the index was able to differentiate study hospitals according to their workers' reported motivational levels.
Using the QI-MQCS and its assessment domains as a framework may allow reviewers to further differentiate study quality by creating response options for partially met criteria; by differentiating unmet criteria into 'unclear' and 'low quality,' or by defining criteria for exceptionally high quality studies.
Following Drummond et al.'s [10] categorization scheme, we differentiated studies depending on whether costs, consequences, or both were considered.
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