The inclusion of only six centres from relatively high socio-economic suburbs in the Sydney metropolitan area limits the extent to which the present findings can be generalised to both national and international contexts.
Sites A, B & C were all within the recognised Dhaka Metropolitan City limits; sites D & E were in Sylhet division in north-eastern Bangladesh, chosen to represent a major urban centre outside of the capital Dhaka.
Among the 2 participating hospitals not meeting this definition, 1 hospital was in an isolated county slightly exceeding the 50,000 metropolitan population limit but was considered to serve a primarily rural population.
24 The utility of Google Trends to help adapt interventions is limited by the area where the intervention is implemented, since data is only available at the state-level and for selected large metropolitan areas, limiting its use in rural areas or areas with a low search volume.
The utility of Google Trends to help evaluate interventions depends on the area where the intervention is implemented, since data is only available for states and selected metropolitan areas, limiting its use in rural areas or areas with a low search volume.
Our sample was limited to the Paris metropolitan area, which limits its external validity, particularly in nonurban contexts.
The participants were drawn from an accessible population (physiotherapy students in a metropolitan university) which limits the generalisability of the study results.
In the New York metropolitan area, the limit is $777,500.
In this study, a novel modeling framework, which integrates hydrological processes and water management, was established over a representative water limited metropolitan area to evaluate the impacts of water availability and water demand on reservoir storage and water supply reliability.
