Given that predictors of uptake are likely to change over time as cultures, values and services change, a judgement was made to exclude older studies.
Because of the widespread convincement that eosinophils exert a protective action against parasitic diseases, traditional medical judgement could lead to exclude patients with these infections from receiving Th2 cytokine-targeted treatments.
We, nonetheless, sought to make general judgements (of adequacy in approach and/or authoritative presentation) to exclude the weakest articles, and, below, seek to explain what we see as the methodological strengths and weaknesses of this literature.
In such cases we attempted to make a judgement to include or exclude that was systematically and scientifically defendable.
Machiavelli's political theory, then, represents a concerted effort to exclude issues of authority and legitimacy from consideration in the discussion of political decision-making and political judgement.
SDs also expressed a wider view of clinical judgements, which implies that they focus on long-term decisions, and that they have enough experience to know what to do to reach their goal, and what to exclude.
From judgement to journey.
Although use of expert opinion may be considered controversial, meta-analysts routinely rely on even stronger judgements when excluding some studies altogether and regarding those included as unbiased.
And so I leave those judgements to the individuals.
