There was a wide spread of ideas, however, about what constitutes 'good' scientific evidence (table 2), and this spread was evident across the subgroup of epidemiologists and biostatisticians.
The guns made solid thumps when placed on an evidence table on Wednesday.
The recommendations are based on reviewed studies and are graded on the quality of the supporting evidence (Table 1).
"Evidence" table row is highlighted at the bottom of the first table on the functional decomposition page.
In a trial where the evidence submitted thus far has mostly been stacks of diagrams and photographs, the guns that were used by detectives to kill Sean Bell made solid thumps when placed on an evidence table on Wednesday.
Three case reports and series were found (level 4 evidence, Table 7).
A total of three case reports and series were found through our search process (level 4 evidence, Table 8).
The grading system of the Dutch Institute for Healthcare improvement CBO was used to level the evidence (Table 1).
A non-significant improvement was found for endpoints, allocation concealment, baseline data, outcomes and estimation of effect, ancillary analysis, interpretation of results and overall evidence (Table 2).
As evidence, Table 1 presents representative quotes from the interview transcripts that were collected by the research team between February and March 2015.
Additional file 1: Evidence table.
