"a pilot study comprising" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in academic or research contexts to introduce a small-scale preliminary study that is conducted before a larger study. Example: "Before conducting our main research study, we conducted a pilot study comprising 20 participants to test the feasibility of our survey questions."
As this was a pilot study comprising relatively small numbers, Bonferroni correction was not applied.
This checklist was evaluated by the SEI in a pilot study comprising intensive care units (ICU) of 40 hospitals.
In order to ensure the senior respondents understood the questions, a pilot study comprising individual interviews was conducted with 10 retired 65+ respondents first.
In a pilot study comprising five men and five women each per genotype group, VKORC1-1639GG homozygotexhibitedted a significantly shorter elimination half-time of orally administered vitamin K1 compared to carriers of at least one A-allele [ 27].
In order to adapt to the differences in populations, a pilot study comprising 36 patients was conducted to determine the population size, inclusion and exclusion criteria, questionnaires, logistics and the primary outcome measures in the RCT.
In a prospective pilot study comprising 38 patients with cirrhosis and 50 patients without liver disease, the following features were evaluated: hepatic vein straightness, uniformity of hepatic vein echogenicity and visualisation of a 1-cm segment of hepatic vein [36].
Furthermore, the therapeutic antagonist 177Lu-DOTA-JR11 delivered a 1.7 - 10.6 fold higher tumor dose than the agonist 177Lu-DOTATATE in a small pilot study comprised of 4 patients with advanced NETs (Wild et al. 2014).
This single-center, open-label pilot study comprised a single-dose substudy in 20 healthy subjects and a long-term, repeat-dose substudy in 22 subjects with rosacea.
The pilot study comprised the first ten included participants.
This retrospective pilot study comprised 17 patients with 18 pathologically confirmed NSCLC.
This pilot study comprised pregravid obese women with and without GDM and lean pregnant women, as well as their offspring.
