Writing in the British Medical Journal, Sunita Desai and Anupam Jena of Harvard Medical School describe how they sought to answer the question by scrutinising data on US health insurance claims from more than nine million women aged between 18 and 64.
Trial data integrity will be monitored by regularly scrutinising data files for omissions and errors.
The integrity of trial data will be monitored by regularly scrutinising data files for omissions and errors.
The integrity of trial data will be monitored by regularly scrutinising data sheets for omissions and errors.
It would permit independent investigators to scrutinise data on efficacy and adverse events of agents more rigorously, and facilitate the conduct of more accurate economic analyses.
Capturing all the data on a matrix enabled us to rapidly scrutinise information from multiple stakeholders.
Two researchers (SP and KF) scrutinised the data and constructed a coding frame.
To further control for bias, an expert team randomly scrutinised the data for the results of the study team that was blinded, and had the final decision.
The members of the expert team had open access to every patient's data file and were able to randomly scrutinise the data and evaluate the adherence independently from the study team.
Quality of data recorded was scrutinised by external data monitors, twice a month.
