Setting-up a clinical trial: Some methodological recommendations

Economic Analysis in an Anthropological Setting: Some Methodological Considerations

Clinical Studies of Biofield Therapies: Summary, Methodological Challenges, and Recommendations

Biofield therapies are noninvasive therapies in which the practitioner explicitly works with a client's biofield (interacting fields of energy and information that surround living systems) to stimulate healing responses in patients. While the practice of biofield therapies has existed in Eastern and Western cultures for thousands of years, empirical research on the effectiveness of biofield the...

Setting empirical cut-offs on psychometric indicators of negative response bias: a methodological commentary with recommendations.

Malingering in neuropsychological assessment has been the subject of intense research for more than a decade and the detection methods arising from this work are diverse and sophisticated. However, the empirical findings are often presented in ways that limit the clinical utility of these techniques and may threaten their admissibility into legal proceedings. The purpose of this paper is to out...

Setting up a database of medical error in general practice: conceptual and methodological considerations.

Though common and the cause of much morbidity and health cost, medical error has until recently attracted little attention from primary care workers. A database that logs medical error, operating within the context of clinical governance initiatives at the level of Primary Care Groups, could provide an appropriate framework within which to scrutinise and identify systematic organisational featu...

A Methodological Note on Setting-up Logging and Replay Mechanisms in InfoVis Systems

Information Visualization needs longitudinal studies to assess the usefulness, usability, and, more generally, the value of its techniques. However, most of the longitudinal studies conducted so far have involved human resources to collect and analyze evidences. Automatic logging and session replay mechanisms can help answering questions while limiting human collection and analysis of data. In ...