Unfortunately, published prognostic studies rarely meet such standards, and systematic reviews and meta-analyses are often only able to draw attention to the paucity of good-quality evidence.
This improvement may be related to higher adherence to coding standards and systematic use of professional coders in Swiss hospitals over these years.
They include the combined statistical (standard deviation) and systematic uncertainties quoted in Table 1.
We will incorporate the results of the risk of bias assessment into the review through standard tables, and systematic narrative description and commentary about each of the elements.
Evidence-based guidelines offer a clinically relevant gold standard and, like systematic reviews, are based on the systematic identification of relevant scientific evidence to safeguard against bias [ 33].
Retrospective analysis of 204 BCS procedures performed for invasive breast cancer from August 2003 to June 2007, in which patients underwent a standard BCS resection and systematic sampling of nine standardized re-resection margins (superior, superior-medial, superior-lateral, medial, lateral, inferior, inferior-medial, inferior-lateral, and deep-posterior).
PSAMs are engineered water-soluble proteins that mimic a segment of β-rich peptide self-assembly, and they are amenable to standard biophysical techniques and systematic mutagenesis.
Thus, the method we used is advantageous over a standard meta-analysis and systematic literature review.
The result has been sustained pressure on living standards and a systematic attempt to hold down wages and cut the costs of social provision for working people.
In the words of the Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, "In the past 10 years, there has been a gigantic experiment at the expense of ordinary workers… The result has been sustained pressure on living standards and a systematic attempt to hold down wages and cut the costs of social provision for working people".
As we shall see below, intellectual (and later cultural) history is an integral part of Cassirer's distinctive philosophical methodology, so that, in his case, the standard distinction between "historical" and "systematic" work in philosophy ends up looking quite artificial.
