Sentence examples for biased enrolment from inspiring English sources

It is likely that funding restrictions that applied to the use of oxaliplatin during the period of the study (NICE, 2002) would have biased enrolment towards patients with liver only disease and may have also resulted in the underrepresentation of patients with operable metastases at other visceral sites.

In Chile, patients in the oldest age group were referred to a haemophilia reference centre for orthopaedic procedures, possibly resulting in biased enrolment.

The small number of participants may have caused the biased enrolment of the patients with CIDP without cervical nerve root thickening.

Additionally, the parent CLUE study excluded critically ill patients, biasing against enrolment of those with more severe manifestations of or unequivocal features caused by a true hypertensive emergency.

While many more women are now enrolled in higher education and technical programs in Canada than ever before, their enrolment is biased toward specific fields.

Although the recall of the time taken to conceive is expected to be highly valid in the pregnancy based studies, across region differences in the average weeks (23 to 33) the women were pregnant at enrolment could cause biased comparisons of TTP if pregnancies that were terminated by a spontaneous abortion were not included on equal terms in the four regions.

First, single-centre studies may bias towards enrolment of more favourable patients.

Our results point to a selection bias in enrolment in the Nouna CBHI.

Thus, that person could bias the enrolment or assignment process, regardless of the unpredictability of the assignment sequence.

This will reduce the possibility of biases in enrolment and the risk of false negative results (e.g. when a surface examination of a baby was not complete).

For that reason the question whether such a selection bias regarding enrolment in the DMP exists is crucial for the interpretation of study results [ 9].