Main outcome measures Changes to the reporting of methodological aspects of randomised trials in manuscripts after peer review, based on the CONSORT checklist, corresponding peer reviewer reports, the type of changes requested, and the extent to which authors adhered to these requests.
Furthermore, Juni et al. discouraged the use of individual scales as absolute and objective measures of trial quality and noted "relevant methodological aspects should be identified, ideally a priori, and assessed individually" [ 10, 18].
As for methodological aspects, the age variable is measured as a continuous variable transformed into a dummy according to the median value (40 years old).
As for methodological aspects, the gender variable is measured as a binary variable coded 0 if the ethnic entrepreneur is female and coded 1 if the ethnic entrepreneur is male.
As for methodological aspects, the variable level of education is measured as a discrete variable that is transformed into dummy according to the median value (primary school).
However, we focus our discussion on methodological aspects of patient reported outcome measurement.
As for methodological aspects, the variable years spent in Italy is measured as a continuous variable that is transformed into a dummy according to the median value (10 years).
(1994); to more methodological aspects such as how the fear of crime is measured Farrall et al.
Although our intention was not to evaluate or to suggest new sampling methods to measure medicine access, adequate sampling techniques and high response rates are fundamental methodological aspects to assure precision and validity in any quantitative study.
Besides the methodological aspects, the obtained analytical results and relevant performance characteristics (e.g. measuring range, limit of detection, repeatability, reproducibility, trueness, and expanded uncertainty of measurement) are determined and discussed.
