Sentence examples for ascertainment of whether from inspiring English sources

Data on the number of prior depressive episodes were not collected to permit ascertainment of whether recurrent depression versus an initial depressive episode would have greater impact on adverse outcomes.

Moreover, the study design does not allow ascertainment of whether there is a direct effect of vagal blockade on glucose metabolism or whether the metabolic effects are dependent on the weight loss observed in subjects with type 2 diabetes.

This also highlights another difficulty associated with exposure assessment, that of critically sensitive periods of development and the ascertainment of whether exposure took place during a "window" of susceptibility to hormone disruption.

Current study design does not allow ascertainment of whether this happens at an early stage in the disease, or as a centrifugal spread in end-stage disease as is speculated for C-type BSE [ 28, 44, 45].

Study quality was assessed according to the method of ascertainment of diabetes (whether blood measurements, or reports by participants or physicians, or both), mean follow-up duration (>8 or ≤8 years), and inclusion of adjustment for the following potentially important confounding variables: alcohol intake (yes or no) and metabolic profile (sufficient or insufficient).

Objective To determine whether ascertainment of childhood obesity by surveillance followed by structured secondary prevention in primary care improved outcomes in overweight or mildly obese children.

Whether C. pneumoniae associations with chronic diseases such as COPD or coronary artery disease are confounded by inaccurate ascertainment of smoking status, or whether infection is directly involved in the causal pathway for smoking-associated diseases, will require careful investigation.

Future studies are warranted to optimize the ascertainment of sepsis in administrative data, whether by testing new enhanced definitions, by optimizing physician documentation and/or by considering data linkage.. Sepsis is undercoded in administrative data using ICD-9 and ICD-10-based case definitions.

Although simple sequence analysis of regulatory regions from diverse and related members of a species can readily ascertain whether sequence variation is present and heritable, ascertainment of impact on gene expression from sequence alone is less precise.

But at the same time, the Church has been most alive when it has been swept by change -- whether that be the ascertainment of the Books of Scripture, the founding of the great religious orders, like the Franciscans and the Jesuits, or the shifts in Church teaching brought about by the Second Vatican Council.

Ascertainment of exposure and outcome was determined by recording whether colonization (exposure) and clearance of colonization (outcome) were determined using standard microbiological methods, and whether the study provided information about the length of time to documented clearance.