Limitations of our study include the lack of formal adjudication of diagnoses, and potential for bias due to missing data.
Other limitations of our study include the lack of formal adjudication of cancer diagnoses, information bias, and potential for bias due to missing data.
Limitations of our study include the lack of formal adjudication of diagnoses and the potential for bias due to missing data, which we have addressed using multiple imputation.
Because most studies relied on the ICD-9 coding system to identify study populations and outcomes, the ascertainment of type 2 diabetes, and particularly pancreatitis, was probably inadequate because of the variation of diagnosis criteria and lack of outcome adjudication.
In order to evaluate this potential and evaluate the impact of lack of data adjudication, we are currently conducting percutaneous coronary angiography prospective surveillance in a subset of institutions in the state with the necessary infrastructure for near real-time submission.
The clinical community has become accustomed to a certain amount of adjudication and may criticize trials that lack adjudication.
3 25262727 Several trials lacked independent adjudication of events, therefore bias in either direction cannot be excluded, including bias towards the null owing to non-differential misclassification of events or assessor bias in trials without independent adjudication.
Making rationale decisions about when and how to adjudicate is hampered by the lack of published study of when and how central adjudication is helpful to improve the quality and validity of trials and at what cost.
Instead, as the commission remarks in its adjudication, it showed a "lack of care... in its presentation of the story".
The authors argue that the primary exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectual-property adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate efficient business operations.
