Finally, to gain insight of the MOC on the use of hospital facilities, the number of admissions and visits to the POPD and ED in the years before (2005), during (2006) and after (2007) the MOC was introduced, were analysed retrospectively.
Though the 1989 amendments to the ISA did not retrospectively introduce any criminal offences, the legislature saw fit to amend Article 149(1) by inserting a reference to Article 11 to forestall any possible arguments on section 8D's inconsistency with the Article.
Third, this study was conducted retrospectively, introducing a potential information bias.
The evolution of Ashley Cole's evidence: The word "black" was introduced into Ashley Cole's statement retrospectively with a view to bolstering Terry's defence, the report says.
The data on exposure variables were collected retrospectively, which may have introduced recall bias.
Additionally, ratings and reports of imagery characteristics were made retrospectively, which could have introduced a memory bias [ 50].
However, this study is severely limited by the difficulty in matching a complex group of patients retrospectively, which may have introduced significant bias into the analysis.
Although we included patients prospectively, the questionnaires were sent out retrospectively, and this may have introduced recall bias.
However, he can stay on the pavement because legislation introduced to remove him was not brought in retrospectively and a judge has previously ruled it would be illegal to force him out.
Senior British diplomats introduced an extraordinary "licence to kill" law in an attempt to legalise retrospectively the colonial-era killing of 24 villagers by UK troops in Malaysia, the Observer can reveal.
