Sentence examples for matched case was from inspiring English sources

The Guernsey set included sera from 332 women who were later diagnosed with breast cancer, together with 664 age-matched controls (332 who did not have any type of cancer when their matched case was diagnosed and 332 who were alive and without cancer after up to 32 years follow-up (range 18 32 years).

Controls were allocated an index date which was the date on which their matched case was first diagnosed with cancer.

For the control subjects, the date of diagnosis of their matched case was used as an index date.

Controls will be allocated an index date, which is the date on which their matched case was first diagnosed with cancer.

The controls will be selected using incidence density sampling and allocated an index date, which is the date on which their matched case was first diagnosed with VTE.

Controls were required to have evidence of active follow-up in the database on the date their matched case was diagnosed ('index date').

Controls who had not consulted in the 2 years before the diagnosis date of their matched case were rejected.

Exposures within 5 years prior to diagnosis of each matched case were ignored, both for the cases and their matched controls.

The controls will be required to be alive at the time of the matched case's ADOD (ie, the match/end date).

Ten controls matched to each case by birth year, being alive and PD free at the time of PD diagnosis (index date) of the matched case, were selected using risk-set sampling from the Central Population Registry using their unique CPR number.

If a matched case is detected clinically, the date of pseudodiagnosis of the control should be defined as the date of diagnosis of the matched case (so excluding later screening test).