Organisation focussed quality improvement programmes are generally not designed to directly improve clinical care and in methodological terms this can still be considered as a "black box intervention".
Further, the interpretation of the scope and limits of scientific method in the attainment of knowledge led to a clarification of the extreme difficulties, insuperable in methodological terms, between the establishment of a natural science and the realization of a "science of history".
We may also be criticised in methodological terms as the questionnaire relied on the doctors' self-perceived assessment of their own knowledge and beliefs [ 3, 15].
However, I have to say that your search for the real Calvino — although I do not approve of it in methodological terms — leads to the establishment of a common denominator that I like: "aggression and clear opposition".
In more methodological terms our results suggest the validity of the usual assumption implicit in modelling innovation outputs that supply-side factors predominate.
In methodological terms, it should be highlighted that, to assess the initial psychometric properties of the COPAS instrument, the absence of floor and ceiling effects was verified, in order to ensure the detection of extreme values in the items.
The search strategy combined established methodological terms for qualitative research, 13 with specific terms for hypertension (see supplementary appendix 1).
