Sentence examples for methodological quality excluding from inspiring English sources
We found no association between funding source and methodological quality (excluding studies with unknown funding: 0.74, 0.19 to 2.84), but there was an inverse association between conclusions in favour of the vaccines' effectiveness and government funding (0.45, 0.26 to 0.90).
The sensitivity analyses, performed by excluding the trials deemed to be of poor methodological quality and by excluding the non-randomized trials, revealed that the overall findings regarding all outcomes were not affected and no significant differences were observed in the pooled-effect estimates, thus confirming the robustness of the results of the meta-analysis.
Studies of low methodological quality were not excluded.
These two derivation studies were thus screened for methodological quality, but were excluded from the meta-analysis.
18 Although all studies in this review were appraised for methodological quality, no participants were excluded based on methodological quality as per recommendations of the Cochrane review.
In common with other narrative reviews, evaluations of methodological quality were not used to exclude papers.
Studies with very poor methodological quality (Cho score <0.35) were excluded.
One study was of very low methodological quality (2 points) and was excluded [ 37] (see Additional file 3: methodological quality rating of included studies and Figure 1).
If an individual study received a 'Weak' global rating score, due to poor methodological quality, this study was subsequently excluded from analysis.
Because this is not a systematic review and few articles were found, evaluations of methodological quality were not used to exclude papers from the study.
Both the overall assessment of the effectiveness and the meta-analyses included a sensitivity analysis, which was performed to assess whether our findings were related to the methodological quality of the included studies, by excluding those with low methodological quality.
