Moreover, cases were not consecutively selected, which may cause selection bias.
Forty-eight patients with posterior crossbite were consecutively selected.
The control subjects were consecutively selected from the Suita study, an epidemiological cohort representing the general population in Japan.
Inclusion was made during a time period of approximately 9 months in which patients were consecutively selected for the study.
Additionally, if the optimal configuration found during the training interval is consecutively selected, the number of packets scheduled for transmission at the optimal configuration and AMC scheme is doubled.
Diagnostic validation is performed in a separate sample selected by identical methodology to the main sample, or in a randomly or consecutively selected sub-sample of participants in the main study.
Subjects were consecutively selected first for the microarray experiment and then the qPCR experiment based on tissues availability.
Second, all TB patients known to be HIV- infected consecutively selected in order to more comprehensively evaluate referrals for ART.
The patients were consecutively selected during clinical follow-up to make up a homogeneous sample showing severe and durable symptoms.
Nine consecutively selected patients with KS and 22 matched controls underwent both structural magnetic resonance imaging and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography examinations.
Ninety-eight participants were consecutively selected.
