Therefore, they may have limited representativeness.
Multiple sampling methods may limit representativeness of this cohort, and hence the generalizability of these findings.
While the sample size may limit representativeness of findings to other healthcare settings, we included a range of nurses working in different environments and data saturation was achieved.
For cohort studies, limited representativeness may mean that results cannot be assumed to be true for unsurveyed or underrepresented subsets of the population of interest; this was a key incentive in devising the xTEND study.
Typically, only one or two recent North American studies per substance were identified, limiting data representativeness.
First, we only used one measurement source from the US Embassy, limiting spatial representativeness of the present work.
Only half of the real-world patients would have qualified for the HPS (DM) and CARDS, limiting their representativeness for clinical practice.
Another limit that should be taken into account is that the GPs were not randomly selected and they underwent a training session, limiting the representativeness with respect to the general community.
Only half of the real-world patients initiating statin use would have qualified for two landmark trials on statin use in persons with diabetes, the HPS (DM) and CARDS, limiting their representativeness for clinical practice.
A final limitation is that qualitative methods are time consuming, and usually only feasible with small samples, limiting their representativeness, so this study was exploratory rather than hypothesis-driven.
