It was the synthesis of these diverse methodologies that enabled us to eventually obtain a comprehensive view on both the quantitative and qualitative features of the BCR-dependent signaling network.
Combinations of multiple levels of analysis and diverse methodologies (e.g. surveys, observations, biological measurements) are valuable for assessing the healthfulness of several environments within a certain environmental setting [ 15].
A key strength of this study is a design embedded within a socioecological approach that combines multiple levels of analysis and diverse methodologies for assessing the healthfulness of different environments.
Based on the socioecological approach, the combinations of multiple levels (e.g. individual, environmental, societal) of analysis and diverse methodologies (e.g. surveys, observations, biological measurements) are used to assess the healthfulness of environments (e.g. social, physical, learning, policy) in preschool and family settings.
A narrative summary of findings is provided as the range of tools identified, the diverse methodologies, and the lack of replication studies precluded the meaningful use of meta-analytic techniques to aggregate the results.
Applying this method is consistent with the use of varied data from diverse methodologies [ 66].
However, despite the availability of appropriate and accepted methodologies, studies we reviewed here used diverse methodologies and were of widely divergent quality – some with major weaknesses, and, presumably therefore resulting in differing estimates of mortality.
We propose for the rapid assessment of health care services an Integrated Multimodal Assessment that uniquely combines diverse methodologies, whose individual effectiveness has been well described in the literature.
Instead, such issues transcend the variety of quite disparate and nonoverlapping fields, each with separate and diverse methodologies, conceptual frameworks, and scientific cultures.
Such affinities are largely concordant across diverse methodologies (7, 20).
