This means many who were convicted of fraud remained eligible to conduct experiments for years.
A poor description of trial design in research papers complicates the selection of manuscripts that are eligible for inclusion when conducting a study on publication bias.
All children aged 12-23 months and their mothers served by 6 of 8 randomly selected sub-centres managed by 2 rural Primary Health Centres of rural Karnataka were eligible for the Karnataka Study, conducted between August and October 2008.
The ASH/ASCO guidelines paper also reported the difference in medians of hemoglobin response for the largest study eligible for the meta-analysis conducted by Thatcher at al [ 10]. Thatcher et al do report in their paper ranges of hemoglobin for patients treated by Epo and control.
As it was anticipated that the response rates to the study would be significantly lower when the participants had to stop using oral contraceptives to be eligible for our study, we conducted a study to compare both hormonal and ultrasound markers of ovarian reserve measured on day 7 of the pill free interval and two subsequent natural cycles.
To identify additional candidate studies we reviewed reference lists from eligible studies and conducted additional MEDLINE searches using the PubMed "related articles" feature for eligible studies.
Studies were eligible for inclusion if they were conducted in a low- or middle-income country, as defined by the World Bank classification system [12], and addressed quality markers, indicators, or metrics for care in an ED or emergency unit.
Briefly, all consecutive inpatients and outpatients with clinically suspected acute pulmonary embolism were eligible for the study, which was conducted between November 2002 and August 2004 in 12 hospitals in the Netherlands.
Consecutive outpatients with clinically suspected acute pulmonary embolism were eligible for the study, which was conducted between January 2005 and August 2006 in six hospitals in France, Belgium, and Switzerland.
All newly diagnosed patients with symptomatic myeloma regardless of risk were eligible for this portion, which was conducted through SWOG centers.
A review of national PMTCT guidelines in order to introduce more efficacious antiretoviral (ARV) prophylactic regimens for women who are not eligible for antiretroviral therapy has been conducted in 11 countries.
