She was one of those people who describe the results of weeks and months of rigorous searching as fateful accidents.
The major strength of this systematic review is the use of rigorous systematic review methodology including a comprehensive search strategy and duplicate and independent processes for screening, assessing methodological quality of included studies, and abstracting data.
Strengths include the comprehensiveness of the searches that were performed, using eight databases and variations on a wide selection of search terms, and the use of rigorous methodology in accordance with PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) [ 29].
In their view, science is a search for reality in the external world through the use of rigorous scientific methods.
The use of rigorous standards also should be feasible in other areas of epidemiological investigation.
Using rigorous search methods, we identified and extracted data from published and unpublished reports of HCV among drug users.
We used rigorous searching and data extraction procedures including focused hand-searching resulting in a comprehensive overview of cluster randomised trials in residential facilities for older people.
A rigorous search of the luggage hold and the inside of the bus ensued while we waited on the roadside for 30 minutes.
A rigorous search of the published literature, contact with manufacturers and contact with the community publishing on the use of TXA uncovered no research to address this issue.
"Even the most rigorous search of media reports and news outlets misses about half the cases," Drezner told me.
