Sentence examples for harmonised study from inspiring English sources
Therefore, a harmonised study protocol providing objectives and procedures was developed prior to the purposive sampling of cases.
A strength of this study is the use of a similar approach for defining neighbourhood SES and RAD across all participating countries, enabling harmonised study site selection.
While this is a positive development, it has already been clarified that this dialogue "will not, cannot and is not intended to" harmonise study requirements [29].
Therefore, we have harmonised our study protocol with two other ongoing prospective studies among colorectal cancer patients: the EnCoRe study of Maastricht University, the Netherlands [ 53] and with the ColoCare Study of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg [ 54].
Furthermore, the individual-level exposure assessment was harmonised, a common study protocol of exposure and outcome definition was developed and the analytic approach was standardised.
Because of these differences, some variables were classified using crude categories to harmonise across studies.
Job strain was validated and harmonised across the studies [ 7] and modelled as a binary exposure (high strain versus no strain).
As with MCI, terminology and diagnostic criteria for VCIND have not been harmonised, making cross-study comparison of disease outcomes difficult.
DataSHIELD (http://www.p3gobservatory.org/datashield/summary.htm) is a project aimed at developing a method and an IT interface to provide access to research results via simultaneous parallelized analysis of the individual-level, harmonised data of each study (Wolfson et al. 2010).
Irrespective of such drawbacks, our approach of conducting a meta-analysis with individual participant data from different cohort studies being harmonised and uniformly analysed can be presumed to be more valid compared to a traditional meta-analysis of published studies.
Therefore, it is important that future studies be harmonised with these novel recommendations.
