Although none of these methods is ideal, they enrich the epidemiologists' methodological toolkit, and can offer better solutions in many situations.
Therefore, the criteria used in our analysis reflect the methodological standard and can also be used for other documents offering recommendations for clinical practice.
The total number of quality points reflects the judgment of the methodological quality and can vary from 0 to 5 (all quality items were positive).
Only through a greatly expanded methodological and theoretical toolkit can historians begin to interrogate the history of 20th-century British Empire.
This work provides a synopsis of tissue characteristics that give rise to highly informative, specific diffusion patterns, and also of how methodological and artifactual aspects can provide erroneous diffusion measurements that do not accurately reflect tissue and may lead to misinterpretation of results.
Conceptual, methodological, and statistical issues can be raised concerning the construction of Type D personality as a categorical variable, whether Type D is sufficiently distinct from other negative affect variables, and if it could be plausibly assumed to predict mortality independent of depressive symptoms and known biomedical factors, including disease severity.
Partnership with individuals who have methodological and research expertise can aid communities in developing sound evaluation plans to determine the impact of prevention efforts in reducing violence-related morbidity and mortality, and in building infrastructure and capacity for prevention.
Methodological and definition issues can partly explain this [ 3].
Further details on inclusion and exclusion criteria and extracted clinical, methodological and statistical data can be found in the published protocols.
Yes, there are smaller observational studies that have shown an association in the opposite direction but, as we have shown in a recent paper, limitations to their methodological and statistical approach can easily explain away their findings [ 14].
