Sentence examples for participants and methods from inspiring English sources

The recommendations cover most methodological issues: study design; definition of population of interest; control of bias, sample selection and participation rate; how to access and engage participants, and methods of enquiry; case definition and diagnosis, and algorithm for making headache diagnoses; use of pilot studies; measurement of headache burden.

Participants and methods: The study employed a randomised controlled trial design.

Background: External quality assessment (EQA) is a tool for quality management in clinical laboratories and its main objectives are assessment of participants and methods performance, training and advice.

PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: Forty-seven healthcare systems (n = 22) and managed care organizations (n = 25) were randomly selected.

Notably, we administered two versions of the MATE instrument: personal acceptance (MATE-P) and perceptions of scientists' acceptance (MATE-S) (see "Participants and Methods").

PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: Hematologic tests were obtained from 3,946 adults aged greater than or equal to 71 years in three communities (East Boston, MA; Iowa and Washington counties, IA; and New Haven, CT).

"Class is highly complex" (chosen by all participants) and "Method is highly complex" (chosen by nine out eleven participants), two of the strongest drivers, are examples of that.

There were moderate differences with respect to the country, number of participants and method of assessing baldness.

Direct comparisons are problematic given the variation in target sample, extent of prior contact with potential participants and method of approach.

Transferability was enhanced through the method of data collection, choice of study participants, and method of analysis (26), as these aspects may potentially be transferrable to similar settings provided the specific features of that context are included.

18 45 We included the details of each study in relation to the aims, participants, settings and methods applied.