The phrase "acceptable prevalence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the frequency or occurrence of a particular phenomenon that is deemed tolerable or satisfactory.
Example: "The study found that the acceptable prevalence of the condition in the population was around 5%."
Alternatives: "tolerable frequency" or "permissible occurrence".
Using 95% confidence interval, a precision of 20% (worst acceptable prevalence 6%), design effect (DEFF) of 1.6 and a non-response rate of 10%, a sample size of 3600 was calculated which would require 72 clusters of 50 people aged 50 and above.
14 If these indicators are to be used by GPs as an audit tool there needs to be an agreement about what constitutes a clinically acceptable prevalence of high risk prescribing and whether there are potential exceptions.
Therefore, we decided to ask the questions as well for patients with ankle sprain, which we considered a more homogeneous patient population and an acceptable prevalence in all three databases.
Using epi-info version 6.0, the sample size was calculated based on the expected prevalence of rubella susceptibility of 8% and the worst acceptable prevalence of 11% with a confidence level of 95%.
As shown, good INR control by self-testing also leads to high efficacy of treatment and high treatment safety, indicated particularly by an acceptable prevalence of minor bleeding complications and low death rate due to major clinical events under VKA treatment.
Sensitivity and specificity values as the measures for the comparison of caries detection methods is acceptable when caries prevalence is the only aspect of caries experience that is to be determined.
As a sample of 30% of the population is, under certain conditions, considered acceptable for estimating prevalence of common characteristics (Aguiar 2007; Lohr 2009), we stopped recruiting survey participants when our target proportion was reached.
These "self-reported doctor-diagnosed" questions seemed to provide the best estimate for overall arthritis prevalence, with acceptable sensitivity and specificity, according to cognitive and validation studies [ 4].
Most newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic patients in Scotland are screened within an acceptable interval and the prevalence of referable disease is low, even in those with delayed screening.
Unfortunately, the data obtained from the studies included in this review is insufficient to ascertain the trend of LBP over more than 2 decades, as the earliest methodologically acceptable study reporting point prevalence was published in 1993 [ 29].
Sample size was estimated by using Epi-Info Ver6 StatCalc for population surveys/descriptive studies[ 7] on the assumption that; a 5% sampling error would be acceptable and 50% schistosomiasis prevalence among a total study population of 4,360 pupils.
