Background: Consensus guidelines are useful to improve clinical decision making. Therefore, the methodological evaluation of these guidelines is of paramount importance. Low quality information may guide to inadequate or ...

Background: Observational methodology is one of the most suitable research designs for evaluating fidelity of implementation, especially in complex interventions. However, the conduct and reporting of observational studies ...

Publishing data as Linked Data increases the interoperability and discoverability of resources over the web space. This process involves several design decisions and technologies. However, there is no one-size-fits-all ...

Qualitative research with children has gained recognition in recent years. Nevertheless, special considerations should be analyzed before conducting focus groups with children from developing countries where methodologic ...

Aim: To evaluate the methodological quality of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) on treatments for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: We searched MEDLINE, CPG developer websites, lung cancer societies, and ...

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) Department of HIV/AIDS led the development of public health guidelines for delivering an evidence-based, essential package of interventions for the prevention and treatment ...

Portable devices have been experimented for data acquisition in different domains, e. g., logistics and census data acquisition. Nevertheless, their large-scale adoption depends on the development of effective applications ...