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These were excluded due to difficulties with study categorisation.
This involved a subjective element, even when using the extended "6Ps" study categorisation.
This study categorisation framework could mask the potential differential effectiveness of multicomponent interventions which have substantial elements of two or more "P" categories.
In a recent paper from the Hyperglycaemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) Study, categorisation of body mass index (BMI) was used when analysing the effect of BMI on adverse pregnancy outcomes.
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This may explain some diversity in incidence of adverse events between studies; however, categorisation of studies according to definition of chronic hypertension did not reduce heterogeneity between outcomes.
Each of the eligibility criteria was examined and those whose parameter(s) involved medication information were identified for further detailed study, including categorisation.
However, as is the case in all qualitative studies, the categorisation of the themes depended on the human factor (i.e. the researcher), and might well have resulted in different clusters if the process had been performed by another researcher.
However, direct comparison of specific variables was not always possible due to different study approaches and categorisation of variables.
Functional analysis of variance Functional analysis of variance (FANOVA) is a method for studying the difference between the functional means of fitted curves in mutually exclusive subgroups of the study sample.Consider a categorisation of the study sample into g = 1, …, G categories, e.g. BMI categories.
The lack of systematic differences between HPS and NHPS could be due to the methods of the study, or the categorisation of the schools; but it is clear that further qualitative research is needed to identify essential characteristics that define a HPS in the Irish context.
Cut off values for SCC to determine subclinical mastitis have been a subject of debate [ 41], therefore in this study a second categorisation level for SCC was used based on suggestions of Schwarz et al. and Berglund et al. [ 42, 43] (healthy samples- SCC <100,000 cells/ml; SM samples -SCC 101,000 200,000 cells/ml; clinical mastitis (CM) samples-SCC >200,000 cells/ml).
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