Review committees possibly view their role as more relevant for this specific criterion than for criteria that mainly ask for profound medical knowledge.
Though most criteria did not reflect the severe floor effects of this specific criterion, the data overall reflected lower quality for goal setting and action plans than desirable for optimal validation, attenuating the statistical relationships we measured.
This specific criterion was removed from our study, as in trauma patients with chest injuries one might expect a loss of lung sliding without ruling out ARDS or cardiogenic pulmonary edema.
The authors' opinion is that this specific criterion is the source of the disagreement, and this is evident from the similar Pearson coefficients of dimensional scores in both systems (Additional File 3: Table 3), which suggests that in essence disagreement is minimal.
This paper describes this mechanism and the specific criteria, which must be fulfilled in order for a finding and participant to qualify for feedback.
Although I lacked several of the specific criteria for this job, such as skills in midge identification and virology, I felt confident that I would be able to pick these up quickly and thought that my experience of fieldwork and statistics were relevant to the post.
In this respect, specific criteria have been established by a working group of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) [28].
To this end, specific criteria of HU intolerance/resistance in patients with PV have been proposed by the ELN Working Group (Table 2) [ 52].
To handle this problem, specific criteria of data cleansing were used for different variables, including the logic checks described above and double checks for possible presence of duplicate patient records.
This registration includes specific criteria taking the cultural and traditional aspects of the varieties into account, without prejudice to the exchange possibilities in the absence of such registration, since an official double exemption from registration has also been foreseen (Santilli 2012).
