The phrase "a small registry of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a limited or specific collection of records or entries, often in a formal or technical context.
Example: "The organization maintains a small registry of volunteers who have completed the training program."
Alternatives: "a limited list of" or "a concise record of".
The potential value of even a small registry in detecting device problems was shown in the case of Medtronic's troubled product, an electrical cable known as the Sprint Fidelis lead that connects a defibrillator to a patient's heart.
By using only the point estimates, i.e., ignoring variance, in a small registry there can be the appearance of improvement or deterioration in completeness when in fact the registry is not statistically significantly better or worse.
Due to the natural variability of cancer rates and small numbers of cases in a small population, a small registry may have widely variable completeness indices from one year to another.
In 2006, a smaller registry, focused on the preservation of the original, historic type, was begun in the United States.
In our small registry cohort of patients with routinely treated RA, complete depletion of B cells 15 days after the first rituximab infusion was not a prognostic factor for clinical response.
The first few years of LUCADA data included only a small subset of registry patients and there were significant differences in stage at diagnosis, histology and PS when comparing patients from hospital Trusts with high levels of missing data with those who had low levels (Rich et al, 2011b).
Full member registry populations range from a few small registries with <10,000 births per year, to the majority of registries in the range 10 50,000 births, to two registries with 75 90,000 annual births [ 10].
When using only the point estimates of completeness, the certification status of a registry may be very misleading in case of small registries where the natural variability of cancer rates due to small numbers of cases in a small population may lead to falsely inflated certification status.
According to the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, a small amount of ingested lead (1%) will store itself in bones, and the rest will be excreted by an adult through urine and feces within a few weeks of exposure.
Cancer registration in Sweden does not use death certification as a means of primary case ascertainment, and the registry, therefore, misses a small proportion of fatal cancers that most other cancer registries would detect and register as 'death-certificate-initiated' cases (Parkin and Bray, 2009).
