Sentence examples for direct adjustments from inspiring English sources

The SLAITS methodology recognizes the potential for bias resulting from the non-coverage of households without telephones and applies direct adjustments in an attempt to minimize this potential bias [27].

Our protocol resulted in frequent and direct adjustments in DAA infusions and affords a potentially novel way to shift paradigms in how we treat critically ill patients.

Patients described in this report were enrolled in a larger ongoing study (ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT01668368), in which esophageal balloon is used to direct adjustments in PEEP and inspiratory driving pressure.

Second, although we stratified our analyses by age, sex and region, we could not make direct adjustments for socioeconomic status and unhealthy behaviors such as alcohol intake because information about these was not available.

*Age-adjusted: direct adjustment using Thai registered population 2008 a Statistically significant difference between urban and rural areas of the same sex at P < 0.05 Table 3 shows the age-adjusted prevalence of abnormal metabolic factors by number of abnormalities.

*Age-adjusted: direct adjustment using Thai registered population 2008 a statistically significant difference between urban and rural areas of the same sex at P < 0.05 Table 4 shows factors that were associated with the prevalence of MetS in men and women.

The association between baseline HC and HIV diagnosis was estimated using inverse-probability-of-censoring-weights to account for artificial censoring, and direct adjustment for baseline covariates to adjust for predictors of baseline HC group (Robins et al., 2000; Hernan et al., 2006; Cole and Hernan, 2008).

Adjusted survival curves were estimated using direct adjustment [ 11].

Prevalence of use by state of residence was adjusted by maternal race or ethnicity using direct adjustment procedures (Szklo and Nieto, 2007) and the racial or ethnic distribution of all NBDPS comparison mothers combined as the standard population.

The age-adjusted standard prevalence rates were calculated with a direct adjustment using the world population in 2000 as the standard population [21].

To adjust for age and duration of diabetes separately, we used direct adjustment for age and then duration of diabetes at death by applying the rates from 2007 to the population from 2002 to obtain adjusted numbers to use for comparison purposes.