We explored the STRICTA guidelines from four aspects, including the development procedure, validity assessment, endorsement and adherence, and citation situation.
In order to investigate a potential way forward to improve on the reporting, we considered the STRICTA guidelines from four different aspects (development procedure, validity assessment, endorsement and adherence, and citation situation), and have made recommendations for potential approaches for further development.
A very useful discussion of exactly what is a pilot study has been given by Thabane et al. [ 2] Such kinds of study may have various purposes such as testing study procedures, validity of tools, estimation of the recruitment rate, and estimation of parameters such as the variance of the outcome variable to calculate sample size etc.
Hence, if there were a decision procedure of validity (or satisfiability) for all sentences of the predicate calculus, then the halting problem would be solvable.
The design procedure and validity of the proposed scheme is demonstrated via numerical simulation of the dithered fuzzy control of a chaotic system.
This checklist consists of 22 items in total, appropriately classified in seven domains: (1) patient, (2).treatment providers, (3) diagnostic evaluation, (4) appliance characteristics, (5) treatment procedure, (6) validity of results, and (7) conflict of interest.
This work provides an in-depth investigation on advantages of a recently developed, new global spatial discretization method over the assumed modes method, and a clear description of the procedure and validity of the new method and its feasibility for arbitrary boundary conditions.
For all four systems, effective decision procedures for validity can be given.
Furthermore, we provide various preprocessing procedures, the validity scopes of which depend again on the considered subclass of OWA functions.
These procedures enhance validity and reliability with the aim of 'reducing errors in the interpretation of study outcomes and attributing outcomes directly to the effect of the intervention' [ 25].
Since this gives us information from a broad spectrum of implants, surgical techniques, surgeon experience, and procedures, the validity of the results may be more global than that from randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
