The phrase "a very selected population" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically intended to describe a group of individuals that has been carefully chosen or curated for a specific purpose.
Example: "The study focused on a very selected population of elite athletes to assess their training regimens."
Alternatives: "a highly selective group" or "a carefully chosen population."
We have studied a very selected population referred to our unit from the ICU of our hospital, after failure of a first gross attempt of weaning.
In our trial we investigated with validated instruments the overall quality of life of a very selected population of patients.
This may be explained by the fact that this is a very selected population as the initial sample consisted of highly impaired former adolescent psychiatric in-patients.
In summary, the ORIGIN trials have included a very selected population characterized by high CV morbidity and mortality in spite of mild hyperglycemia making extrapolation of the results to common forms of type 2 diabetes or prediabetes highly questionable.
This study may therefore have underestimated the benefits of NAVA and PAV [ 20, 39, 41, 42], but we deliberately decided to compare these modes in patients in the recovery phase after acute respiratory failure encountered in daily practice rather than in a very selected population, with the risk of showing results that would be transposable only to a niche population.
Most of the RCTs have enrolled, as a matter of fact, very selected population of patients.
"This is a very select population of patients," said Dr. Jeffrey Raizer, director of the medical neuro-oncology program at Northwestern University.
Another limitation of our study is that we compared DNA methylation in buccal cells (a mixed-cell population) to CD4+ lymphocytes (a very select population).
Garnacho-Montero and colleagues [ 11] studied a very select population of patients with sepsis, MOF, and a duration of mechanical ventilation of more than nine days.
The majority of included studies were judged to have examined very selected populations.
These data will be the main contribution of this study since, to date only data of series of patients and very selected populations have been established.
