Sentence examples for blinding of the operator from inspiring English sources
As the strains in the current study are readily identifiable by their skin coloration, blinding of the operator was not possible.
Thus the blinding is incomplete, but the primary outcome pain reported by the patient is not likely affected by lack of blinding of the operator.
To estimate the potential bias of the different studies included, the described method of randomization, the concealment strategy of the allocation and the blinding of the operator performing the clinical examination were assessed.
These included initial DNA sequencing of SNP regions to prove the reliability, blinding of the operator to the case-control status of samples to reduce observer bias, and simultaneous analysis of case and control samples to avoid differential misclassification.
However, this bias can be reduced by using multiple control groups as in the present study, which compared four treatment groups, and by the triple blinding of the operator, the patient, and the analyst.
16 patients had known lesion(s) of cancer, but the location of cancer was blinded to the operator.
All analyses were blinded to the operator.
Similarly, the names of the schools and their allocation to different OHE strategies were concealed by assigning numbers (1-40) to schools and alphabets (A-E) to the strategies at random to ensure blinding of the data entry operator and data analyst.
Nevertheless, we attempted to minimize the potential bias by blinding the operator of the algometer to the threshold values, while another observer recorded the values displayed on the LCD screen.
This resulted in 10 H&E-stained sections, 5 of each hemisphere, for each mouse, which were subsequently masked and coded, blinding the operator to the clinical phenotype of the source mouse.
