[EN] The standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) lay down that one of the keys to combining learners¿ knowledge and skills is the implementation of new more student-centred methodologies, and learning based on competences. One of the most widely used and effective active learning methodologies is ...
Published in Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique
Interventions for child obesity prevention are needed and it is unclear whether evidence from nonrandomized intervention studies is adequate. The objective of this research was to review the methods for the design, analysis and reporting of nonrandomized intervention studies for child obesity prevention and to assess potential for bias. We conducte...
Published in BMC Medical Research Methodology
BackgroundPopulation estimates of alcohol consumption vary widely among samples of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians. Some of this difference may relate to non-representative sampling. In some communities, household surveys are not appropriate and phone surveys not feasible. Here we describe activities undertaken to imp...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundDrug driving is an emerging global road safety problem. As the prevalence of alcohol-impaired driving decreases, and as more jurisdictions decriminalize or legalize cannabis, it is increasingly important for policy makers to have accurate information on the prevalence and pattern of drug driving. Unfortunately, this data is not widely ava...
Published in Journal of clinical epidemiology
To analyze how many non-Cochrane systematic reviews (NCSRs) used Cochrane's risk of bias (RoB) tool, domains they used, and whether judgments and comments about RoB were in line with Cochrane Handbook. This was a methodological (research-on-research) study. We retrieved NCSRs from PubMed, extracted information about methods used for RoB assessment,...
Published in Ultrasound in medicine & biology
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a non-invasive bedside method used to quantify extravascular lung water (EVLW). To evaluate the methodology and diagnostic accuracy of LUS in studies assessing EVLW in intensive care unit patients, PubMed and Embase were searched for studies comparing LUS with imaging modalities. In 14 relevant studies a wide variety of equ...
Published in Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Determining a period of steady state (SS) is recommended when estimating resting energy expenditure (REE) using a metabolic cart. However, this practice may be unnecessarily burdensome and time-consuming in the research setting. The aim of the study was to evaluate the use of SS criteria, and compare it to alternative approaches in adults with over...
Published in Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP
Convention states that it is inappropriate to use tools that have not undergone validity and reliability testing in order to form conclusions on the topic they are assessing. The use of content analysis to aid in the profiling and retrieval of measurement tools may be useful to inform tool design. These analysis methods can be applied effectively t...
Published in European journal of internal medicine
Published in BMC Medical Research Methodology
BackgroundAlthough the benefits of using methodological frameworks are increasingly recognised, to date, there is no formal definition of what constitutes a ‘methodological framework’, nor is there any published guidance on how to develop one. For the purposes of this study we have defined a methodological framework as a structured guide to complet...
