Sentence examples for methodological criteria and from inspiring English sources

To construct normality curves for uterine height using strict methodological criteria and to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of the use of these curves in clinical practice.

The quality of each study was assessed by informal methodological criteria, and possible sources of bias were investigated.

In addition, there is a need for empirically testing additional methodological criteria and assessing the validity and reliability of a standard risk of bias assessment instrument.

This is true for many methodological criteria and we urge meta-analysts to give explicit details of the protocol they employed in making their decisions.

Systematic reviews included in DARE must meet strict methodological criteria, and thus we deemed them to be of a similar methodological standard to Cochrane systematic reviews.

We plotted the results on a matrix ('harvest plot') for each category of intervention, weighting studies by the methodological criteria and distributing them between the competing hypotheses.

Only six instruments included criteria that were supported by data showing an association between a particular methodological criterion and effect size in animal studies (Bebarta et al. 2003; Lucas et al. 2002; Macleod et al. 2004; Sena et al. 2007; Sniekers et al. 2008; Vesterinen et al. 2010).

The purpose of this review was 2-fold: a) to systematically identify and summarize existing instruments for assessing risks of bias and other methodological criteria of animal studies, and b) to highlight the criteria that have been empirically tested for an association with bias in either animal or clinical models.

The literature reviews were conducted according to strict methodological criteria [ 18], and were designed to define 'poor' asthma control; and to identify the tools used in primary care to assess asthma control.

However, this discrepancy has been known to vary significantly depending upon population and methodological criteria, consistent with wide-ranging uncertainties in gathering and interpreting data regarding rates of self-harm in general.

Standard methodological criteria for non-inferiority and equivalence trials including design, analysis and interpretation issues were applied to 18 recently conducted large non-inferiority (15) and equivalence (3) randomized trials in the field of AIDS antiretroviral therapy.