Sentence examples for artefact of reporting from inspiring English sources

However, it is not possible to determine whether this difference in period prevalence is a result of different incidence, illness duration, illness severity, or an artefact of reporting related to perception of illness.

The low number of Campylobacter cases reported in 2001 may reflect an artefact of reporting because the Protection against Infection Act was newly introduced that year and the surveillance system was still in its infancy.

It is also possible that the reduction in reported rates of infections may to some extent have been an artefact of reporting behaviours, since data were collected and reported by ICUs themselves and may have been influenced by perceptions of external scrutiny and performance management.

The effect of reporting artefacts appears plausible and allows meaningful interpretation of our SND results.

In fact, an American study concluded that over 80% of the variability in the incidence of scrapie in the United States was the result of reporting artefacts [ 18].

However, our present results and those of [ 6] are consistent with the occurrence of reporting artefacts: a non-proportional supervision in larger holdings will result in fewer of them reporting suspect cases.

This would be in line with previous findings [ 25] that reported that over 80% of the variability in the incidence of scrapie in the US was the result of reporting artefacts.

This explanation would fit well with the large body of evidence that support the occurrence of reporting artefacts affecting the ascertainment of scrapie [ 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 19].

Our efforts to prevent the effect of reporting artefacts on the relationship between holding size and the case count concentrated on the analyses of CSFS data after the removal of the index case.

The apparent difference between the regions in the incidence of fatigue (>5% between enzalutamide and placebo in NA patients but not in EU patients) may be due to an artefact of the reported verbatim keywords (e.g. 'fatigue' vs 'asthenia') used in the two regions to describe general fatigue symptoms but resulting in different Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities codes.

37 Furthermore, higher disease rates could also be an artefact of differential reporting of cases or methods of data collection that vary by area or practitioners.