Systematic review procedures address study credibility by assessing internal validity or "risk of bias" — the assessment of whether the design and conduct of a study compromised the credibility of the link between exposure/intervention and outcome.
A Treasury spokesman said last night it was legitimate for the government to include tax changes previously planned by Labour in the assessment of whether the coalition's tax, spending and welfare package was progressive.
The former CEO of Co-op financial services says he feels responsible for initiating the merger with Britannia, and for overseeing the assessment of whether the deal made sense.
In response to the report, the housing agency said that it would "institute a more formal and systematic approach" to its review of the performance benchmarks and the assessment of whether they were reached by the companies' executives.
Thus, improved understanding of changes in state in the hydrothermal system contributes to the assessment of whether phreatic eruption is likely.
The assessment of whether a public interest is represented in PPP should not be limited to whether a legal body with pure public authority is party to a PPP.
Interviews occurred at 3 months in order to allow for the assessment of whether any post-performance changes were maintained over the short to medium term and to allow time for the detection of any behavioural change.
For Oxfam, a few percentage points here or there are probably not relevant in the assessment of whether inequality is unacceptably high, but insights into why the trend of inequality reversed in 2009 and 2010 would help with policy proposals.
It 's my belief that the issue of "discipline-driven" versus "scientific problem-driven" is totally irrelevant to the assessment of whether proposed research will further the fundamental mission of the NIH.
Critical reading and analysis of trials involves the assessment of whether the available data provide enough credible evidence that the treatment will result in a clinically significant and relevant improvement.
In this paper, we investigate the suitability of structure-based complexity measures for the assessment of whether or not evolutionary testing can be performed successfully for a given test object.
