Sentence examples for data before the date from inspiring English sources

We determined oral contraceptive use from the prescription claims data before the date of diagnosis of venous thromboembolism and defined it as having a recorded claim for a prescription of a study contraceptive whose filled use extended to within 30 days before the index date or beyond the index date.

The study was not subject to response bias or recall bias as the exposure data were recorded before the date of diagnosis or pseudo-diagnosis.

The duration of follow-up was defined from the date of operation (or first diagnosis for the validation cohort II) to the latest follow-up before we analysed the data or the date of death.

Covariate information at the time of the mammogram was assessed by using data from biennial questionnaires before the date of the mammogram.

1 2 Another strength was that we had detailed and complete information on exposure assessed in daily doses for finasteride, dutasteride, and α blockers by use of data from the Prescribed Drug Register before the date of diagnosis.

For each subject, we included all pressure data from the date of implant through the date of death or last data transmittal before 11 January 2007 [range, 358 1,090 days; median, 846 days (2.32 years)].

Patients aged 85 or older were excluded, as were cases without at least 5 years of UTS data collection before the index date.

Covariate information at the time of the mammogram was assessed using data from biennial questionnaires completed before the date of the mammogram.

Patients were also required to have at least 24 months of recorded data before, and 18 months after, their index date (defined as their first consultation for gout between January 2000 and June 2005).

Women were classified as menopausal if they had not menstruated during the 6 months before the date of data collection.

Diagnostic and prescription data were extracted for 12 months before the date of treatment initiation with duloxetine or venlafaxine XR (index date), between July 1 , 2005 and July 30, 2006.