C • clinician. Usually a speech-language pathologist but can include other interventionists.
P • patient. Also commonly called student or client. P is used to represent any one of these labels.
Reader • the individual who is critiquing an article for the Clinical Prosody blog.
Strong Support • The level of evidence is in the A range.• The methods, analyses, and interpretations are well done.• The results are generally positive.
ModerateSupport • The level of evidence is in the A range.• The methods, analyses, and interpretations are generally well done; however, there are some problems.• Most of the results are positive.
• The level of evidence is in the B range.
• The methods, analyses, and interpretations are generally well done with some problems..
• Most of the results are positive.
Fair Support • The level of evidence is in the A range.• The methods, analyses, and/or interpretations have a few problems.• At least some of the results are positive.
• The methods, analyses, and interpretations are generally well done but there may be some problems.
• At least some of the results are positive.
• The level of evidence is in the C range.
• The methods, analyses, and interpretations are generally well done although there may be a small number of problems.
• The level of evidence is below the C range.
• The methods, analyses, and interpretations are generally well done.
Limited Support • The level of evidence is in the B range or above.• There are several problems with methods, analyses, and/or interpretations.
• There are some problems with the methods, analyses, and/or interpretations.
• The level of evidence is in the D range.
• The methods, analyses, and/or implications are generally well done but there can be a few.