This approach may be less susceptible to underreporting of violence due to embarrassment and social stigma than for example data collection through personal interviews [ 31].
Similarly, educational level was not found to be a significant predictor of all-cause injury morbidity in different samples of American adults.,, Although less-educated people might be at a higher risk of non-fatal injury occurrence, this could be counterbalanced by underreporting of less severe traumas, less access to medical care and a greater exposure to more lethal injury types.
However, these case-fatality rates must be viewed with caution because they may reflect underdiagnosis or underreporting of less severe cases and therefore probably represent overestimates.
In a sample that has undergone considerable fractionation, a greater proportion of observed proteins would be in the range classified as low-abundance markers and consequently less affected by the underreporting of the proteins amounts.
This resulted in inadequate application of standard case definitions, lower-quality and less-complete data reported, underreporting of cases, limited country reports on PsA-TT pharmacovigilance activities, and detrimental delays in submission of those reports to the vaccine manufacturer.
However, the relatively high smoking rates observed in the current study (35% pre-pregnancy, 20% early pregnancy) suggest that underreporting of smoking may be less of a concern.
This may lead to less reliable reporting of mental distress, for example, an underreporting of such distress.
Still, medical records possess limitations related to: a) inconsistent or absent documentation standards, b) limited availability of recent documentation, and c) underreporting of pre-admission conditions judged by providers to be less pertinent to patients' admitting diagnoses [ 10, 11, 15].
The results of these models showed that there is substantial underreporting of criminal activity, but, if anything, immigrants tend to underreport by less than natives.
We also made a rough estimation of the underreporting of cases with notifiable symptoms to the IDSP, which is nothing less than enormous.
