Sentence examples for methodological weaknesses and from inspiring English sources

This work can support the results of some previous studies [11] [15], but now ruling out several methodological weaknesses and covering a very large data set with respect to effects of coach dismissals.

Validation studies were small with methodological weaknesses and inconsistent results.

The validation studies we identified were small with considerable methodological weaknesses and inconsistent results.

Comparison between studies was limited by methodological weaknesses and heterogeneity between patients.

However the reviewed studies were limited due to methodological weaknesses and were predominantly undertaken in the US with Latino patients.

In general, the studies were small and single-centered and had methodological weaknesses and high risk of bias.

Short-term global health education immersion is fraught with challenges, and educational mapping projects are far from immune from methodological weakness and unintended consequences.

The methodological quality of each study is detailed in Table 2. Studies varied in methodological weakness (and reporting): all studies described how long patients were followed up and all but two described how the population was sampled.

Evidence of small study bias (often indicative of publication bias or a strong association between methodological weakness and a non-null association in the expected direction in smaller studies compared with larger studies) was present for depression but absent for physical activity, diabetes, and C reactive protein.

We used Ferrera's typology because it accounts for theoretical and methodological weaknesses of previous classifications and it categorizes countries based on different aspects of the welfare provision, and therefore various recent studies have used it to analyse variations in population health and health inequalities 12, 27, 29, 32, 34, 35, 55.

Nevertheless, the 2 studies showing fair reliability [ 26, 27] are affected by possible bias; in the first case [ 27] due to a very limited sample size and in the second case [ 26] due to procedures and methodological weaknesses as the involvement of novel raters and the use of a modified test.