We strongly recommend future researchers use uniform definitions of determinants, disease, and disease progression; it would enable more precise determination of possible risk factors for knee OA progression through meta-analyses.
The lack of regular, ongoing surveillance, using uniform definitions and survey methods across states has hindered efforts to track IPV.
The incidence of febrile neutropenia and bacteraemia has been studied more in detail, albeit the majority of studies did not use uniform definitions, include at least partly non-neutropenic patients and focus on distinct patient subgroups.
Abstractors are centrally trained, and use uniform definitions, data collection methods, and data entry software.
We used uniform definitions and obtained the following baseline data from the hospital health records: socio-demographic data, medical diagnosis as defined by pre-established categories, and number of prescription medications at admission.
Data from 2,299 individual patients in three trials were analyzed using uniform outcome definitions.
Using a uniform definition of serious bleeding to analyze the findings of the various studies, they demonstrate a consistent rate of serious bleeding of 2.4% but conclude that this adverse effect is outweighed by the drug's benefits in patients with severe sepsis who are at high risk for death.
On the other side, although, in the field of neonatology, the concept of "clinical sepsis" is widely used, a uniform definition of this common diagnosis is lacking, as is a standard criterion for the inclusion or exclusion of probable/suspected sepsis from the analysis [ 38].
As for the lack of figures on the use of nondeadly force, the situation is even murkier because there are no uniform definitions of force and no standard reporting requirements from one police department to another.
There is a paucity of clear and uniform definitions of these related constructs [ 3, 16].
