This raises the possibility of patient response bias, particularly for reported global performance status and responses to questionnaire items.
There was an increasing level of mental health problems in those reporting more than one pain site (Table 2), particularly for those reporting four pain sites, where three times more females than males scored over the cut-off for anxiety/depression.
Open letters and other campaigns are now under way to highlight the risks of a potentially prohibitive cost increase, particularly for news reporting.
Table 2 also shows that the prevalence of alcohol use in combination with select conditions was high, particularly for those reporting gout (74.5%) and hypertension (65%).
In the first place, the study was based on self-reported behaviour in a church context, and there is therefore the possibility for reporting bias, particularly under-reporting of sexual behaviour.
The open-label trial design poses a risk for reporting bias (particularly for end points involving patient or investigator judgment), but it was unavoidable because of lack of available appropriate placebo-containing injection devices.
Particularly for young patients, reporting the survival of primary total hip arthroplasties and reporting the survival results of the revisions of the same cohort are equally important.
It may be possible that further to CONSORT, another metric for measuring the quality of reporting is whether full decision trees can be elicited from the abstract (by hand or by machine), particularly for primary reports of simple RCTs.
Such details are important, particularly for laboratory reports that will be evaluated by law enforcement officials and others who would not understand what tests were done, health officials said.
The reliability of data for ecological studies can be limited in taxonomically or cytologically challenging species or complexes, particularly for historical data reported in the literature.
