These findings allow the guideline panel to consider equity issues into guidelines and contribute methodologists to develop a methodological document in future.
The committee prepares its procedure, a yearly workplan and a methodological document as the basis of the updating process [Decree No. 6/1998 (III. 11) NM of the Minister of Welfare on the Regulation of Updating Professional Classification Systems and Financing Parameters Used in Health Care Sect. 5(4)].
Methodological studies document that event history calendars improve accuracy of health information over conventional questionnaire instruments [ 48, 49].
With tailoring to the local context, the methodological approach documented is likely to be of use to those responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating complex public health initiatives internationally.
In terms of the types of literature sourced, there were 27 methodological discussion papers, 3 papers containing methodological discussion with one case study, two editorials, two methodology books, two guidance documents and one paper reporting primary research.
A full study report prepared for the purposes of capturing the entire history including a complete record of the methodological and analytical documents generated during the course of the study on which this paper is based has been made freely available as an Additional file 1.
As methodological proxies, we documented the econometric technique used9 and whether the estimates came from a published paper or a working paper.10.
Recent methodological research has documented several benefits of having standard and gold-standard measurements simultaneously on a subset of individuals [58], [59], [60].
Theoretical and methodological memos are documented.
It might also be useful to include further methodological provisions to document model development and provenance.
