More efforts should be made to harmonize the methods for independent preparation steps of economic evaluations.
The authors predefined exposure and outcome criteria in an attempt to harmonize the methods applied to this analysis including exposure to non-biologic DMARDs, definition of events (hospitalized infections), and the computation of person-time in the evaluation of infections in the abatacept CDP and the RA cohorts.
The effort to harmonize the methods used in these cohorts may seem trivial; however, Solomon and colleagues outlined the importance and complexities of defining exposure risk windows, comparators and endpoints, and when different, the challenge in interpreting data from epidemiological studies published independently [ 34].
Said Eskenazi, "The children's centers have begun to come of age, and we can now reap the benefits of harmonizing the methods for our longitudinal birth cohort studies.
There is a need for a national body to provide guidance for the medical schools to harmonize the teaching methods, particularly introducing more interactive and students-engaging methods on the account of passive lecturing.
The deviations δ V P (r) and δ ρ(r) are expressed as multiplicative factors and applied to the V P and ρ profiles from Rivoldini et al. (2011) to harmonize the different methods used to calculate wavespeeds in the two studies.
I think that one of the key issues is to harmonize the laboratory methods so that we can get a better understanding of the epidemiology of Lyme disease in Finland.
Authors should describe any efforts made to harmonize the assessment methods, if these were different.
No doubt energetics might be a thread running through Duhem's various works, and no doubt these works harmonize with the method of energetics as he conceives it, but energetics cannot be the whole story.
By harmonizing the research methods, updating data and consolidating information regarding the areas under investigation, the two case studies presented here evolved to follow approximately the same design.
