Sentence examples for methodological quality characteristics from inspiring English sources

Information on relation to methodological quality, characteristics of participants, interventions, and outcome measures of each included trial is provided in Table 1.

The clinical, demographic and methodological quality characteristics of the reference and index tests, as well as the diagnostic results (eg, true positives, true negatives, false positives and false negatives), will be extracted independently by two reviews.

The abstracted data included methodological quality, participant characteristics, test methods, and outcome data.

Data retrieved from the reports included methodological quality, participant characteristics, laboratory methods, and outcome data (sensitivity and specificity).

We could not carry out the planned sensitivity analyses evaluating methodological quality, population characteristics, or monitoring methods because of the small number of included studies.

Summary tables were used to report the methodological quality and characteristics of main results of included studies, while scatter plots were used to explore the relationship between altitude and the prevalence of hypertension.

The planned sensitivity analyses based on methodological quality, population characteristics, and monitoring schedule could not be performed because of the small number of studies and the methodological weaknesses inherent in included studies that would have made interpretation of such a subgroup analysis speculative.

The methodological quality, the patient characteristics, and the intervention characteristics of the incidence studies are presented in table 1.

Associations may be confounded by study characteristics other than the intervention, particularly methodological quality and patient characteristics.

First, the studies varied in methodological quality and study characteristics.

50, 51 Lee and colleagues reviewed 243 randomly selected articles from the general internal medicine literature published between January 1 , 1999and December 31, 1999 to determine if there was a link between methodological quality and journal characteristics.