Inclusion in the study was not limited by study design, length of intervention, or CAR methodology.
For instance the timing of intervention, the appropriate dose of agents, the length of intervention, the routine use of available growth factors in clinical practice or not represent some of the important areas requiring further investigation.
All the 18 studies included were briefly described regarding important characteristics, including 'type of physical exercise intervention, comparator, length of intervention, data collection, study population, country, setting, year(s) of the study, study design, type of economic evaluation'and key economic findings.
The Kumamoto trial had a planned length of intervention of six years.
In her analysis, Soeken reports that this is independent of SAMe dose or length of intervention.
The two patient groups were exposed to the same length of intervention.
The length of intervention is reasonable, and without the involvement of traveling time, which in turn saves cost.
The length of intervention was one year for single- family groups and two years for multi- family groups.
These measures included sample size, type of intervention, length of intervention, patient's relationship to the deceased, time since the bereaved death, and patient demographics.
