Even though the impact of financial interventions is supported by two reviews [ 24, 25], most of the studies included in these reviews are from the USA, making the results less applicable to countries with a different healthcare system such as Australia and Canada, or to low- and middle-income countries.
No regular support meetings were scheduled for motivational encouragement after this initial presentation, as this might make the results less applicable to the general population.
Although previous studies have assessed the effect of education instruction on HPV-related knowledge in Hong Kong [ 25- 27], the differing socioeconomic factors and the availability of the HPV vaccine in Hong Kong make the findings less applicable to Mainland China.
The authors acknowledge that most of the studies are old, which may make the findings less applicable to modern health settings.
This makes the study less applicable for specific groups of patients with high use of barbiturates, opioids and benzodiazepines.
13 This may make the results less applicable to a general patient population.
This assumption is valid for RNA-based retrotransposons but makes the model less applicable to DNA-based transposons that undergo excisions resulting in descendants of the specified ancestor that subsequently lack the insertion.
There are disadvantages using this type of selected material for gene expression studies, the tumours in this study come from a relatively homogenous population in Sweden which might make the results less applicable for breast cancer tumours in general.
If the results of a broad study like this one are positive, it justifies wide implementation, because the included group is representative for a mixed elderly population; in contrast, selection of a more specific group would make the intervention less applicable to other patients group.
However, this would have made the study sample less applicable to the BaPa Cohort, to which the evaluation protocol will be applied.
