We identified additional articles for consideration of inclusion through cross checks of relevant bibliographies.
Routine validation of data is carried out during quarterly supervision of all sites, through cross-checking of master cards and ART registers, resulting in relatively high data quality.
Malawi has established a standard, national monitoring system for ART used by all public and private sector facilities, the data are routinely validated during quarterly supervision through cross-checking of master cards and ART registers, ensuring high data quality.
Further relevant articles were sourced through cross checking references in articles and from the authors' library.
Through cross checking findings apparent differences may resolve themselves, and a coherent interpretation can be constructed.
Cross checking of citations of all the articles was also carried out.
Data cleaning included amending information that was seen to be incomplete, suspected to be incorrect or inappropriately completed through cross-checking with the case notes and ward report logs and removal of typographic errors and duplicated information.
I think I put about five of these layers on, then countless read-throughs, cross-checks, etc. until I was reading through the text and not changing anything.
Reliability was achieved through iterative cross-checking of the analyses, followed by member checking agreement to verify the annotations of thematic patterns.
To ensure reliability and validity of the study, several strategies were implemented: (1) triangulation of data collection through three IDIs and three FGDs, (2) self-reflectivity and peer review or debriefing, (3) procedural validity through proper interview technique, and (4) cross-checking of the coding process in the thematic analysis.
Although the functional investigation had already delivered striking insights that gathered the consensus of both experts and stakeholders, the Foresight exercise included also a further cross-check of the results through other methodologies, such as the analysis of S-curves.
