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March 03, 2010 - Is this a general comment, or a specific comment on
inadequate sample size? … Is this
a general comment, or a specific comment on inadequate sample size,
inadequate outcome definition … Some information on background rates is needed to do
sample size calculations, but the information may … Page 10, paragraph 3: This is another place where the authors refer to the
sample (the registry) being … There is a strong interplay between representativeness, patient recruitment,
sample size and power,
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December 01, 2019 - Statistical analyses (statistical test/estimation results)
Test used
Summary measures
Sample … Preventive Services Task Force, 35 as follows:
Was sample definition and selection prospective or
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February 01, 2018 - Data extraction
We extracted study design, year, setting, country, sample size, eligibility criteria
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January 01, 2005 - literacy is a frequent theme
Evaluations focus on understandability and motivation to talk to provider
Sample
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November 01, 2017 - Limitations
The results presented here are based on a small sample of RCTs, selected from a single
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January 01, 2013 - A second reviewer will verify a 25% sample of articles and abstracted data.
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January 01, 2007 - restrictive patient eligibility or
inadequate reporting; and limited power of studies due
to small sample
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February 16, 2016 - Eligible RCTs must have a total minimum
sample size of 10. … We will require a higher minimum sample size (n=20) for other
comparative studies as they typically … experts,
much of the relevant literature on ASD is published in English; however, we will scan a
sample … in the model by adjusting for
factors such as age, symptom severity, or comorbidities in the study sample … use
established concepts of the quantity of evidence (e.g., numbers of studies, aggregate
ending-sample
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March 26, 2013 - rectal surgery
We will require that studies have enrolled at least 10 subjects (per arm); smaller
sample … rectal surgery
We will require that studies have enrolled at least 10 subjects (per arm); smaller
sample … Even if the
outcome rate is 10 percent (i.e., quite high), the sample size needs to be >400 patients … because our preliminary searches indicate that non–English-language studies are few and have
small sample … for other effectiveness reviews and will include elements
that address population characteristics, sample
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October 01, 2008 - Methods: Medical charts were randomly selected from a systematic sample of hospitalizations identified … Such determination would require review of all or at least a random sample of
medical records without
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December 17, 2013 - Table 1 represents sample questions to be asked to each of the categories of Key Informants.
… Sample questions for Key Informants
Key Informant Category Potential Questions
Clinical Experts/Clinical … Reference Number, Author, Year
Study characteristics Study design
Inclusion/exclusion criteria
Sample
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May 01, 2013 - Before the data abstraction form
templates were used, they were pilot tested with a sample
of included … depression using a validated clinical interview
or diagnostic instrument in screen positives and all or a
sample … Sample size ranged from
99 recruited at a single site to 4,084 enrolled from
101 practices. … Defining sample size for the study based on
detecting clinically relevant differences in
test performance … here is between the
increased generalizability of having subjects take a
single test versus overall sample
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January 01, 2018 - TEP Reviewer #4 Methods I also couldn't find the rationale for having different sample size
for the … The review indicates
that the FDA standard of sample size was included, but the
rationale for doing … have now added in additional
reasoning to our exclusion criteria
column for study design about the
sample … The midcourse change in the scope of the
review (pertaining to the sample size of studies included in … have now added additional
reasoning to our exclusion criteria
column for study design about the
sample
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February 01, 2013 - We also required a sample size of 10 or more to ensure
that we focused on hypothesis-testing studies … Second, the sample sizes of the studies included in this
review were small to medium. … Insufficient funding also may contribute
to small sample sizes. … The small sample sizes created
several problems with the reliability of the analyses, and
rendered … Loss of subjects
to followup makes the issues related to sample size even
more pronounced.
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December 01, 2019 - For KQ 4, we have chosen a sample size cutoff of 500 for prospective cohort studies and case-control … settings
Other settings
Study design
KQs 1–3: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of any sample … size of at least 500, a case-control studies with a sample size of at least 500 a
All other designs … and studies using included designs that do not meet the sample size criterion
Language
Studies … We will reassess risk of bias in a random sample of 10 studies included in the prior review that continue
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December 01, 2019 - Moderate risk of bias may be assigned to large cohort studies with a sample size for adequate power to … of bias assessment tool is similar to our approach, we will separately assess risk of bias on only a sample … Not all treatments are feasible for all types of FI, so sample differentiation will be important for
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December 01, 2019 - Table 1 represents sample questions to be asked to each of the categories of Key Informants. … Sample questions for Key Informants
Key Informant Category
Potential Questions
Clinical … Number, Author, Year
Study characteristics
Study design
Inclusion/exclusion criteria
Sample
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December 01, 2019 - abstracted into categories that include but are not limited to: study design, year, setting, country, sample … of symptoms; criteria used for diagnosis, presence of medical and psychiatric co-morbidities); the sample … Appendix
Sample Search Strategy (Ovid MEDLINE)
exp Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ (4528)
exp Encephalomyelitis
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January 01, 2020 - Power and sample size calculations. A review and computer program.