Sentence examples for matched patient groups from inspiring English sources

The authors matched patient groups by age and degree of organ dysfunction.

In this study the safety and efficacy of cyclodiode were compared to those of both cycloYAG and tube surgery in matched patient groups.

Although efforts were made to match patient groups based on disease duration, sex, age and other demographic parameters, when such parameters were available, differences in the underlying demographics of the groups could also confound the results.

This highly matched patient case-control group did not show any significant confounding factors arising from demographics or clinical background except for the previously stated and expected creatinine and BUN readings.

Adequately powered randomised controlled trials comparing well-matched patient groups with long-term follow-up are required to limit systematic error and enhance external validity.

It should be better to select age-matched patient groups in such studies evaluating parameters with age specific normal values.

For each patient in the combined surgery group we therefore randomly selected a matched patient in the valve surgery group and a matched patient in the CABG surgery group.

Thus, a total of 39 matched patient pairs in the two groups were available for the analysis on hospital services utilization.

To identify the association of AKI with long-term cardiovascular risk, Wu et al. [ 12] compared 4,869 patients who recovered from de novo RRT-requiring AKI (recovery-AKI group) and the same number of matched patients (no-AKI group).

Individual control group patients matched patients in the local recurrence group, the distant recurrence group and the local & distant recurrence group.

Comparing patients affected by VAP with controls (100 matched patients), the former group was significantly more likely to be male (P < 0.001) and to be immunosuppressed (P = 0.004).