Sentence examples for a convenience control from inspiring English sources

In this respect, it is relevant that the BBD group was not a convenience control, since the healthy women in this control group were undergoing annual screening mammography and had suspicious mammography findings [ 26].

The expectations and ambitions of 60 million different people demand a far higher level of personal attention, convenience, control and power than that offered by the uniform "one size fits all" service of yesteryear.

However, time constraints of the project and fears over drop-out rates led to this group's relatively small numbers being supplemented with a "convenience sample" control group consisting of participants recruited from a large postal survey of older adults' attitudes toward mental health treatment.

This gives the consumer more convenience, control, time efficiency and the avoidance of human interaction.

Similarly, for convenience, control values for the three different treatment regimens were combined for presentation, but comparisons of CPF effects were conducted only with the appropriately matched control cohort.

The impact of using convenience controls on the power for the detection of disease related markers needs to be further investigated, especially in recently admixed populations.

There are several additional issues other than the type I error inflation arising from PS to consider when evaluating the appropriateness of convenience controls versus controls selected to reflect the study-base that produced the cases.

As with genome-wide association studies, when these concerns can be overcome, convenience controls can provide for greatly increased sample sizes and power (54).

Finally, while the majority of the previous case-control studies of ALS have primarily used one specific group of controls, be it population-based controls, controls with other diseases, or convenience controls (ie, family members, friends, neighbors), it is perhaps advisable to recruit multiple groups of controls in future case-control studies of ALS.

A convenience sample of control mothers, who had no history of obstetric or metabolic disease and in whom routine screening for gestational diabetes mellitus (using national guidelines [ http://www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines], SIGN [Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network] 55) was negative, was recruited from routine obstetric follow-up clinics after the 34th week of pregnancy in the same centers.

"If you connect all these things to the Internet, you need to have good ways — good from a security standpoint and a convenience standpoint — good ways to control access to things," he said.