There are many ways to organize a bookshelf — by author, title, genre, date of publication, color, size — but, prior to writing about the role of weather in literature for the magazine this week, it had never occurred to me to mentally rearrange my shelves by meteorological phenomena.
In addition, the following were registered for each trial: publication date, size (number of treated patients), "setting" (neurology, emergency medicine, internal medicine, general practice or other), location (US, Europe, other, multinational) and the diagnosis of patients treated in the trial.
General characteristics included study design, first author, year of publication, sample size, interventions and various types of artificial total disc replacements (TDRs).
We found no association between magnitude of the NNS and journal publication, RCT size, multi- or single-centre RCT, funding source or type of intervention (Table 4).
The data sought from each study were based upon a comparable prior systematic review done in the HIV field [ 17] and included: date of publication, study size, participant characteristics and sample storage conditions.
The following information was abstracted: author, year of publication, sample size, disease, type of impairment and disability scales, distinction between generic or disease-specific and mental or physical HRQL, and the associations with impairment.
After adjusting for journal of publication, sample size and funding source, each point increase in PICOT score was significantly associated with a 2.1% increase in the OQS and a 14.2% increase in the KS.
The selective data are authors' names, year of publication, sample size per arm, regimen used, tumour stage, median or mean age of patients, vaccine formulation, information pertaining to study design and main results of clinical efficacy in each arm.
24 25 In the GSA group, we used meta-regression approach within the bivariate model 26 to explore the following studies characteristics as potential sources of heterogeneity in test performance: year of publication, sample size, geographical area, and place of screening.
The extracted information included the following items: first author's name; year of publication; sample size; population; gender; treatment arms; usage of PSA; duration of catheter placement; and catheter-related infection outcomes (infection rate, organism analyses).
