However, it would be too premature to draw conclusions on whether the methodological or time-related aspects caused the fairly high prevalence rates of anxiety disorders in the current study.
To describe the quality of the economic evaluation studies considering the key methodological issues (time horizon, analytical viewpoint, outcome measures).
Additionally, subgroup analyses indicated strong prognostic powers of CTCs, irrespective of geographical, methodological, detection time and sample size differences of the studies.
Our current meta-analysis provides strong evidence that CTCs including circulating miRNAs in peripheral blood are significantly associated with adverse RFS and OS of GC patients, irrespective of the geographical, methodological, detection time and sample size differences.
An audit trail, or copy of all documents reflecting methodological changes over time, was maintained for confirmability.
"Seventy Years of Research on Personality and Close Relationships: Substantive and Methodological Trends over Time". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 70, (2002): 783-812.
We provide a metadata checklist for database submission and publication of UViGs designed to be flexible enough to accommodate technological and methodological changes over time (Table 1 and Supplementary Table 1).
Biodiversity monitoring programs should set a collection protocol, using a robust sampling design, with sufficient survey effort, spatial replication, methodological consistency and time to detect eventual ecological alterations.
It is notable that findings vary depending on data source, methodological approach and time period observed.
Bainbridge et al. (2016) content analysis of twenty years of studies investigating the HR practices – outcome relationship found significant improvements across many validity-related methodological choices over time.
There was no trend to improvement in methodological quality over time.
