There was no well laid plan at the beginning of the programming cycle regarding (i) continuous data collection, (ii) frequency of data collection, (iii) body responsible for collection, (iv) collections forms to be used,andd the (v) verification of data collected.
The study sponsor was unblinded to treatment assignment until after verification of the data collected through Week 13 were verified.
The characteristics analysed included publication year (before or after 1993; the mean year of publication of studies), type of control group used, verification of the data collected, type of relative studied, sex of cases, adjustment for smoking habits in study subjects, adjustment for smoking habits in relatives and adjustment for family size.
Moreover, the data collected for verification in the study targeted young consumers, therefore consumers' perceived risk mainly concerned security risk; however, risks related to the financial products themselves, for example, policy risk, liquidity risk, and financial risk, were not examined.
Experimental verification is performed for different aggregate types and data collected from scientific literature.
At the field scale, local knowledge on the land was coupled with scientific data collected along toposequences and additional verification transects.
In the case of weekends, in our experience, discharges can be identified on Fridays, and provisional data collected in advance, with final verification on Monday morning.
Site monitoring visits to the participating clinics will be conducted routinely and source data verification (SDV) will be performed to ensure that the data collected are complete, accurate and reliable.
The data collected were not subjected to third-party verification and might thus contain inaccuracies and misconstructions.
Study specific queries and macros were programmed to allow for toggling between the forms, verification of input data, final checking for completeness of the data collected, and for export into the "back-end" database.
