Sentence examples for before the entry date from inspiring English sources

All comorbidities and covariates were determined as a status/diagnosis before the entry date.

Of 87 532 patients with a discharge diagnosis of BPH, 79 280 were included in the study after excluding patients with any cancer diagnosed before the entry date (n=8252, about 20% of these were bladder cancer).

Patients were excluded from the study if they had a malignancy diagnosed (except basal cell carcinoma), malabsorption syndromes, salt wasting conditions, or a recorded history of alcohol/drug/substance abuse before the entry date.

Fifth, other medications will include use of aspirin, use of anticoagulants and as a proxy for comorbid conditions the number of different types of medicines having systemic effect and associated with British National Formulary 39 categories (in each case, at least one prescription in the last year before the entry date).

Patients will be subdivided into two groups evaluated on the date when they started taking statins: those without CVD records before the entry date (taking statins for primary prevention); those with CVD diagnosed at or before entering the study (taking statins for secondary prevention).

Primary studies were eligible for inclusion only if they had been published before June 2004 and if the entry date of a study in a database preceded the date of the literature search of any systematic review analysed.

Other symptoms were included if they occurred within 60 days of the entry date and before the diagnosis of ovarian cancer or the date on which the patient left, died, or the study ended.

All the above variables were derived from the patients' primary care record except for the number of emergency admissions in the year before the study entry date where we used the HES-linked data.

A total of 21,808 women were excluded for different reasons (Fig. 1), and another 15,539 women were excluded because they had a UTI in the year before the cohort entry date.

We also excluded patients diagnosed with tICH before the cohort entry date, hemodialysis before tICH, chronic kidney disease cancer coagulation defects purpura and other hemorrhagic conditions, mortality mechanical ventilation ischemic heart disease before tracking.

Patients with a recorded diagnosis of depression before the study entry date and those prescribed antidepressants before this date, before their date of registration with the practice, before the age of 20 or more than 36 months before their first recorded diagnosis of depression were excluded.