Sentence examples for methodological hierarchy from inspiring English sources

For public health programming, there is no absolute methodological hierarchy.

These empirically-driven ('positivist') approaches resonate strongly with medicine's methodological hierarchy of evidence in which the controlled experiment counts highly [ 1].

Another similarity between evidence-based medicine and evidence-based ethics is that the scope of "scientific evidence" is narrowed to exclude most forms of social scientific and qualitative evidence and is limited instead almost exclusively to medical outcomes, which is the evidence of choice according to the methodological hierarchies of evidence-based medicine.

Implementation of CIPE in Germany is influenced by various hindering factors mostly coming from systemic (missing incentives), behavioral (hierarchy problems) and methodological (limited quality assurance) factors.

Most studies aiming for the higher level of the 'evidentiary hierarchy' pyramid have significant methodological limitations and more research in this area is needed [ 8- 11].

The multi-methodological approach is organized according to subsequent steps, including SWOT analysis, stakeholders analysis and Multicriteria Analysis, taking into account both the methodology of the Analytic Hierarchy Process and the Multi Attribute Value Theory.

There are existing hierarchies of evidence for economic analysis, although it is unclear if the methodological basis for the ranking within these hierarchies is supported by evidence and theory [ 15, 16].

Whether this low frequency of gene discovery reflects either a tight spectrum of genes in the top layer of the EWS-FLI1 target gene hierarchy or may be due to methodological limitations, or suggest a transcription-independent mechanism in EWS-FLI1 mediated gene regulation remains to be established in future studies.

Two independent reviewers assessed the level of evidence and the methodological quality of systematic reviews, using the National Health and Medical Research Council hierarchy of evidence, and the Revised Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews respectively.

The system analysis (bearing the postulates of the object entirety and its hierarchy structure organization) is not the only methodological opportunity that modern social research represents.

This study develops a measure of the medical ethical principles using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) [ 5] as a methodological tool.