Scientific rigour

Scientific rigour: a heavy or light load to carry?

Planning and evaluating population interventions to reduce noncommunicable disease risk - reconciling complexity and scientific rigour?

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading global causes of morbidity and mortality. It is important to develop and deliver effective NCD prevention programs, but these have been difficult to evaluate. Technical approaches differ, with academic researchers, practitioners and policy makers each bringing different perspectives and priorities to the task of NCD program evaluation. Epidemiolog...

The climate of neurofeedback: scientific rigour and the perils of ideology.

1 Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, H3A 2B4, Canada 2 Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, Irvine, CA, 92618, USA 3 Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, H3A 2B4, Canada 4 The Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, H3T ...

No pain, no gain: clinical excellence and scientific rigour--lessons learned from IA morphine.

The effectiveness of intra-articular (IA) morphine in arthroscopic procedures of the knee joint was analysed in all randomised and controlled trials that included injections of morphine and placebo into the knee joint, and where the data were analysable. Sensitivity of the studies and effectiveness were analysed for three different periods: immediate (0-2h), early (2-6h) and late (6-30h). Sensi...

Rigour and grounded theory research.

BACKGROUND Grounded theory methodology is a suitable qualitative research approach for clinical inquiry into nursing practice, leading to theory development in nursing. Given the variations in, and subjectivity attached to, the manner in which qualitative research is carried out, it is important for researchers to explain the process of how a theory about a nursing phenomenon was generated. Sim...