The phrase "a gap in reporting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lack of information or coverage on a particular topic or issue in news or data reporting.
Example: "The investigation revealed a significant gap in reporting regarding the environmental impact of the project."
Alternatives: "a deficiency in reporting" or "a shortfall in reporting".
It also identified a "gap in reporting in the first part of 2012, which neither the BBC nor the BBC Trust addressed".
"While the number of cases of domestic violence has been increasing every year in the slum, we felt there was a gap in reporting of such incidents thanks to lack of a support structure and societal norms that force women to keep quiet," says Nayreen Daruwalla, director of SNEHA's prevention of violence against women and children programme.
In using the study quality measures in addition to the TREND checklist, if information on a particular item cannot be determined from the study report, this can be interpreted and coded as representing a gap in reporting.
A second gap in reporting involves informal health care providers, which lack state-accredited medical qualification and are not authorized to practice allopathic medicine (5).
Similarly, in Southeast Asia, where serotypes O and A are prevalent every year, outbreaks due to Asia 1 have been reported only sporadically in the past 10 years; a recent gap in reporting occurred between 2002 and 2005 (Table; Technical Appendix Table 1).
This study fills a crucial gap in reporting locational incidence rates (IRs) for Queensland children, and presents analyses of fatal and non-fatal drowning location data collected using data linkage.
In the 21st century, the number of reported cases declined conspicuously, but this may be related to an inexplicable gap in reporting diphyllobothriosis in Latin America after 1990 rather than to an actual decline of human infections.
We have referenced recent work by Scivoletti et al. that offers a possible solution to the gap in reporting outcomes [ 9].
The gap in reporting these findings is a major limitation but does provide a unique historical perspective of the trajectory of GI service development and modernisation of relevance to the present day.
Yet Messrs Hausmann and Sturzenegger apply the same valuation ratio indiscriminately to bonds, equities, trade credits and bank loans on both sides of the balance sheet.That said, there remains a big gap in reported profitability between American FDI and FDI in America that risk alone cannot explain.
Recently, a group of drug manufacturers and medical journal editors published "ten recommendations for closing the credibility gap in reporting industry-sponsored clinical research," aimed at eliminating reporting biases.
