Twenty-two percent (22/101) characterized this issue as the following: referred to studies as awaiting assessment, ongoing or unclassified; referenced studies in the section of the review where included; or noted and/or incorporated studies qualitatively into the discussion.
Additionally, the e-diary incorporated study-specific reminders to patients to measure SMBG and to record insulin doses administered.
The purpose of our study was to evaluate whether recently published translational research studies that examined biomarkers for diagnosis, disease activity, and prognosis in systemic autoimmune diseases incorporated study-design features important for valid clinical associations.
The CONCORD protocol incorporated studies designed to explain the international variations in survival.
Overall, quality of the incorporated studies to address our objective was poor.
Many medical programs have incorporated studies on cultural differences and awareness into their curricula, and broadened their opportunities for international training through work, education, and research activities [ 1- 6].
First, the sample sizes in several of the incorporated studies were relatively small, which may reduce the strength of our conclusions.
This may be explained by the pronounced diversity in ablation strategy, anticoagulation regimen, intraprocedural use of heparin, and follow-up between the incorporated studies.
The p-values represent the summary statistics of all incorporated studies (rather than p-values for independent studies), enabling the inspection of the contribution of each new study to the overall effect estimate.
For example, in our review of reviews on fetal fibronectin and transvaginal cervical ultrasound for predicting preterm birth, [ 8] we included reviews that had incorporated studies among women who were both symptomatic and asymptomatic for preterm birth.
The thematic synthesis incorporated studies based on only a narrow range of qualitative methodologies (interviews and focus groups) which were informed by a similarly narrow range of epistemological assumptions.
