The UPCI tumor registry guidelines require that the error rate not exceed 3%.
Cases were ascertained according to EUROCAT's Central Registry guidelines [ 26].
The population-based cancer registry was established in 1994 by the Trinidad and Tobago Cancer Society, using cancer registry guidelines set by IARC 17, 18.
Where possible, inclusion of patients on prospective clinical studies, ideally randomized controlled trials, and also prospective non-interventional studies (in accordance with current EBMT registry guidelines) is also essential for development of the field.
We used a strict definition of CAM, following the Registry Guidelines adopted by the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field Registry of Randomized Controlled Trials, thereby excluding some psychological interventions that might be considered CAM by some (such as cognitive therapy) while including others (such as biofeedback).
We attempted to follow the Registry Guidelines for the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field Registry of Randomized Controlled Trials but erred on the side of over-inclusion of therapies as CAM if the author's self-classification was not clear from the title, abstract and indexing information.
Bibliographic records were screened by KC to determine if: the study included children under 18; a CAM therapy was investigated (following the definition of CAM adopted by the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field Registry of Randomized Controlled Trials and presented in their Registry Guidelines) [ 11]; and the article was a report of an RCT.
The goal of OSAC is to populate a registry of standards and a registry of guidelines with documents that can be used to improve the practice of forensic science and adopted by accrediting bodies to evaluate the quality of work in forensic laboratories.
Currently, for purposes of including cells in its stem cell registry, NIH guidelines define the cells as "derived from the inner cell mass of blastocyst stage human embryo".
Therefore, analyzing this registry using guideline rules can identify cases that were not treated according to the guideline.
Analyzing a regional breast cancer registry using guideline rules for PMRT enables automatic detection of cases that were not treated according to the guideline.
