Sentence examples for be affected by misclassification from inspiring English sources

Demographic and disease characteristics of patients with psoriasis reported from large claims datasets may be affected by misclassification bias or coding errors.

The latter may be affected by misclassification of causes of death in mortality registration.

However, data from the DNRP might be affected by misclassification of prostate cancer diagnoses.

Further, all behavioural characteristics including tobacco use may be affected by misclassification due to imperfect recall or infidelity of self-reports, but again this is unlikely to have occurred differentially for snus users compared to smokers.

Consequently, studies based on hospital discharge registries may be affected by misclassification and inclusion bias for example, by including only patients admitted to hospital with AF we might have increased the proportion of patients who were at a higher risk of thromboembolic events and death.

The result including only women with the greatest amount of antidepressant coverage in the 90 days before delivery in the current exposure groups is reassuring because they were less likely to be affected by misclassification as these women were likely to have been taking antidepressants near the time of delivery.

Health service databases of administrative type can be a useful tool for the study of progression of a disease, but the data reported in such sources could be affected by misclassifications of some patients' real disease states at the time.

In this investigation, incidence estimates based on cross-sectional data were affected by misclassification by the BED and Ax-AI assays.

It is also possible that our results were affected by misclassification of exposure.

They may also have been affected by misclassification of exposures and outcomes.

Comparisons of the effects of air pollution across disease groups may have been affected by misclassification, as coding may be affected by administrative hospital decisions [ 24, 27].