An overview of the 16 studies is provided in Table 1, while a detailed summary with methodological details of each study (design, sample, and key findings) is presented in Additional file 1. Qualitative studies were often conducted at the post-natal phase but, in some cases, required the women to reflect on experiences during and pre-pregnancy.
Finally, key methodological details of the study are described in free-form text in a paper and not available in machine-readable form, making these metadata essentially unsearchable.
But the media repeatedly reported the concerns of this one man, generally without giving methodological details of the research, either because they found it too complicated, inexplicably, or because to do so would have undermined their story.
He and Ewen point out that peer reviewers had praised the methodological details of the experiment when their application for a £1.6m research grant from the Scottish Office was given the go-ahead.
One means of promoting reproducibility is to ensure transparent reporting of methodological details of study designs, data collection and analytical approaches, as well as any limitations to data interpretaion.
Users desiring fuller documentation on the underlying assumptions and methodological details of any of the above indicator collections are encouraged to obtain the original reports listed on the individual data set pages.
The study comprised two parts: part 1 was a dose-escalation phase that assessed the safety and tolerability of GSK2857916 to establish the recommended dose; part 2 confirmed the safety, tolerability, PK, and efficacy of GSK2857916 at the dose identified in part 1. Full methodological details of this study are reported in Trudel et al.7.7
Methodological details of the NHAMCS survey are described elsewhere [11].
Section 3 presents the methodological details of data collection and analysis.
The methodological details of each stage of the development process follow.
To facilitate an in-depth comparison of our results with previous work, the methodological details of the three studies are summarized in table 4. We used a lower stimulus current than Quartarone et al. [14] to avoid C-fiber andivation and pain [26] because we were concerned that this might adversely affect the induction of LTP-like or LTD-like plasticity [27].
