If, however, there was a bias in classification of cause of death in favour of the treated group, fewer deaths would be ascribed to fungal infection and more deaths to other causes in this group.
For a schematic overview, see Supplementary Figure 3 in Additional file 3. Note that this classification-like approach was used in favour of a standard limma analysis to be able to select genes exhibiting only minor transcriptional changes but that still discriminate between the "high glucose" and "low glucose" pathway members.
In the few studies where classification and matched interventions have been used, meta-analysis showed a statistical difference in favour of the classification-based intervention for reductions in pain (both for short-term and long-term) and disability.
In lawsuits over the classification of property, the presumption is in favour of the community category.
Advances in our understanding of tumour biology have encouraged reassessment of tumour classification by the site of origin in favour of molecular characteristics and/or oncogenic drivers amenable to treatment.
They also confirm the subspecies status of H. g. occidentalis and the absence of arguments in favour of the classification of H. g. alaotrensis as a separate species.
At other times, incidents were downgraded by the word "critical" being crudely crossed out in favour of a lower classification, or left uncategorised.
They revealed that in 2005 and 2006, the absolute number of deaths for cerebrovascular diseases, marked as I60 to I69 according to the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases, was undervalued by 50% in favour of deaths for hypertension, which were marked as I10 to I15, due to an incorrect coding of the causes of death in statistical processing.
For this reason it appears that if there has been a miss-classification bias reducing the number of induced abortions in favour of spontaneous ones, the bias is small.
This study provides strong evidence in favour of developing and testing simple classifications of pain in older people in general practice based primarily on the number of pain sites rather than a system driven by location alone.
