Major limitations of the existing literature are heterogeneous assessment methods used to describe the comorbidity and small sample size from isolated centers.
Since the degree of injury is so heterogeneous, assessment of the recovery from injury is not straightforward.
However, the logistic regression analysis could not identify any adult or neonatal characteristic associated to the heterogeneous assessment of pain and distress in the studied group.
34 Inconsistencies in findings between these cross-sectional studies are thought to be due to differences in exposure measurement, misclassification, migration and heterogeneous assessment of confounders.
We report here as an example the rules we used to standardize sun exposure variables, in order to provide suggestions on how to recode variables with highly heterogeneous assessment among studies.
Simko, I., Hayes, R. J. & Kramer, M. Computing integrated ratings from heterogeneous phenotypic assessments: A case study of lettuce post-harvest quality and downy mildew resistance.
However, these findings must be interpreted within the severe methodological limitations of many studies, including small sample sizes, variable study entry criteria, short duration of trials, heterogeneous outcome assessment methods, and lack of detail on intervention methods.
Screenings for FD among stroke patients have yielded discrepant results, likely as a result of heterogeneous or incomplete assessment.
We conducted nearest-neighbor imputation over a large region in the Pacific Northwest, USA, to investigate effects of imputation grain (single pixel or kernel); inclusion of heterogeneous plots; accuracy assessment grain and extent; and value of k (k = 1 and k = 5), where k is the number of nearest-neighbor plots.
The use of heterogeneous criteria for assessment, characteristics of samples, or measurement analyses is (at least partially) responsible for the diversity of results on this prevalence [ 11].
