The phrase "a degree of selection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the level or extent of choice or criteria applied in a particular context, such as research, hiring, or decision-making processes.
Example: "In the hiring process, we apply a degree of selection to ensure that only the most qualified candidates are considered."
Alternatives: "a level of choice" or "a measure of criteria".
Furthermore, participants in the evaluation phase were selected by nurses, which may have introduced a degree of selection bias.
Therefore, a degree of selection bias may have occurred.
This is likely to introduce a degree of selection bias within the cohorts.
Second, a degree of selection bias has been introduced by including patients with prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy.
The clinicians participating in the IDOCC initiative did so voluntarily, and the data collected may therefore be subject to a degree of selection bias.
However, the instrument requires experience to use; although there is a degree of selection for blood vessels, the energy will indeed rupture these if used without care.
This change is likely to reflect improvements in multi-disciplinary postoperative care, strict patient selection, a degree of selective reporting and the increasing concentration of procedures into high-volume centres, which have repeatedly been shown to have improved outcomes [ 23, 26].
He added: "From the evidence I have seen there is good reason to believe that the admission arrangements the school uses have the effect of acting to produce at the very least a degree of social selection".
Nevertheless, as the researcher is responsible for reporting selected themes of the participants' descriptions, it is noticeable that phenomenology has a degree of objectivity the selection of objects of the subjects' experiences (Creswell 2013; Maxwell 2012).
Moreover, a significantly higher proportion of patients referred by physicians, usually in primary care, re-used the ED within 72 hours compared with those who were self or relatives referred, suggesting a degree of clinical selection prior to attendance.
As both studies included were retrospective observational studies and thus, likely to be subject to a degree of case selection, it is possible that cases with shorter, less-complicated disease segments were preferentially chosen for TTERPT.
