The adaptation procedure was monitored by a five-expert panel including three specialists in pain management, an expert in methodology, and an expert in clinical research.
One of the authors, an expert in qualitative methodology, trained seven interviewers to conduct semi-structured interviews, with an emphasis on how to balance following an interview protocol with using various exploratory probing techniques, and how to interact with children of HIV positive parents.
Dr. Douglas Wedell, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina and an expert in rating scale methodology, recalled a study in the 1940's that asked people from many different countries to locate themselves on a "ladder of happiness".
The DSMB is an external independent group which included at least one expert in trial methodology, anaesthesiology and/or bariatric surgery.
For each included trial there will be two independent assessors, including at least one expert in trial methodology (NL) and at least one expert in chlamydia screening (HG).
After reading the depression study and considering the league's issues with recollective survey research, Dr. John Whyte, the director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute in Philadelphia and an expert in neurological research methodology, said he did not share the league's criticisms.
PO is an expert in concept mapping methodology and contributed significantly to the study's design, as well as the interpretation of the findings.
He is an expert in qualitative research methodologies and the creator of the particular style of qualitative analysis methodology (Template Analysis) used in this study.
Two expert researchers in qualitative methodology (a moderator and an observer) carried out the focus groups.
This discussion paper, which presupposes a basic knowledge of systematic review methodology, was developed by consensus among experienced reviewers, members of the Adverse Effects Subgroup of The Cochrane Collaboration, and supplemented by a consultation of content experts in reviews methodology, as well as those working in drug safety.
