Enrolling and treating study participants according to random assignment of physician practices (clusters) reduced the risk of bias in treatment application.
Thus, any potential errors in the assignment of specific physicians to specific practices appear to be too infrequent to have a substantive impact on model results.
We interpreted this as feelings of frustration and stress that had a strong negative effect on the experience of sickness absence assignment for physicians at primary health care centres in Sweden.
Used predominantly in research settings, the range of methods adopted for cause-of-death assignment includes physician-certification, data-derived algorithms, application of Bayes' theorem, and direct statistical estimation of cause fractions (2).
Universities started looking upon the education of new generations of able researchers as an important element of their assignment, rather than just the training of physicians, lawyers, and clergy members.
One of the biggest criticisms of observational databanks results from potential bias in assignment of treatment by a physician.
At hospital B, because data on individual physician assignment of categories were available, inter-rater reliability was analyzed by using the Fleiss κ statistic.
On the other hand, a study in Agincourt, South Africa suggests broadly similar HIV-attributable mortality trends over time between InterVA assessment and physician assignment of cause of death (32).
Each office, for instance, holds its own donations in the bank and has a list of physicians prepared to go on assignment.
