Sentence examples for matched control schools from inspiring English sources

The study is limited by several factors, including lack of matched control schools.

Meal nutrient compositions were monitored from 2007 to 2009, and a plate waste study conducted in the spring of 2009 compared food selection and consumption patterns among students at Chef Initiative schools, with students receiving standard school lunches at two matched control schools.

The municipality was asked to provide six matched control schools but only four schools agreed to become a control school.

The current study uses a quasi-experimental design with 10 intervention schools and 10 matched control schools from the Southern-Limburg area in the Netherlands (Fig.  2).

Children within an intervention school (n = 123) and a matched control school (n = 152) aged 5-to-12-years-old were recruited for the study.

This has led to a controlled design comparing children from intervention schools and matching control schools.

To account for changes in prescribing over time, we created a matched control sample composed of physicians who graduated from 20 different medical schools that adopted a policy restricting gifts in 2008.

Includes a matched control group.

An unselected age matched control group not hospitalized for bronchiolitis during their first year of life, reflecting the general population in the study area was recruited from 3 nearby schools.

Among matched controls attending a school that implemented a policy in 2008, 1.2% (1.1% to 1.3%) and 1.4% (1.1% to 1.6%) of prescriptions were for paliperidone among the earlier and later cohorts, respectively.

Among matched controls attending a school that implemented a policy in 2008, 8.3% (8.1% to 8.6%) and 9.1% (8.7% to 9.4%) of prescriptions were for lisdexamfetamine among earlier and later graduates, respectively.