Sentence examples for matched comparator group from inspiring English sources

A novel project output will be the development and dissemination of an epidemiological methodology to reliably compare mental health status in a relatively small target sample with a matched comparator group.

An additional strength of the study was the availability of a matched comparator group of obese patients who did not undergo surgical weight loss intervention.

Future analyses with an age-matched comparator group would help to further distinguish the costs directly related to constipation from those due to other age-related complaints.

Furthermore, a matched comparator cohort (5:1 ratio) was extracted from the Swedish population register.

Instead, this study used propensity score techniques to match a comparator group to the exposed cohort and address potential confounding by numerous covariates that are integrated into this single variable; comparison of the duloxetine initiators to the comparator cohorts suggested the cohorts were well-balanced for the claims-based covariates included in the propensity score model.

Two districts (Kalomo and Katete) served as intervention districts, while the other two (Monze and Petauke) served as matched comparators.

49– 52 One study of a large cohort of patients (exenatide n = 27,996 and an approximately equal number of matched comparators) from a health insurance claims database found no association between exenatide and pancreatitis; the incidence of acute pancreatitis (0.13%) was comparable for initiators of exenatide relative to the comparator group (0.12%; RR 1.0; 95% CI: 0.6 1.7).

Finally, there was left one individual with CD whose matched comparators had been excluded for any of the above reasons.

Similarly, we were unable to match our comparator groups for parity.

Electronic diabetes health record data sets allow an anonymous comparator group, matched for key demographics, to be created with prospective follow-up of diabetes care and complications compared to those with diabetes who had bariatric surgery.

Each patient from the FBNc group was pair-matched with other one from the comparator group, upon fulfilment the matching criteria of belong to the same diagnostic group, and present with the same SOFA score (±2) and age (±5 years).