Our innovative approach is consistent with the methodological standards of patient-centered outcomes research, and our findings will offer a significant contribution to the literature on cancer surveillance.
Given that the citations contained a range of methods, and our focus on social interactions we did not employ a single set of appraisal criteria but instead judged each citation according to the methodological standards of its genre.
The economic literature was reviewed based on methodological standards for economic evaluation.
Our analysis is in line with the WHO's conclusion on the need for methodological standards to investigate these issues.
This implies that conducting methodological high-quality reviews on ethical issues requires appropriate quality criteria and methodological standards to be defined and applied in ethics research and publication writing.
The criteria for success of this pilot was based on the primary feasibility objective (adherence to the exercise plan), and methodological standards for being adherent to training.
There are currently no methodological standards for evidence mapping [ 12].
On the other hand, it could be argued that researchers who report that they have used focus groups should adhere to the methodological standards for such studies.
Others have tried to show that this case exhibits some methodological standard in action.
In addition, PROSPERO [ 15] now offers an international prospective register of systematic reviews requiring minimum methodological standards based on the PRISMA statement [ 16].
We hope that our findings will contribute toward improved methodological standards in FDG kinetic modeling.
