For example, older patients may not accurately report health service resource use over a relatively short time frame (less than 12 weeks).
Household surveys are unlikely to be a useful source for this information, as mothers may not accurately report ACS (with difficulties to differentiate between ACS and other drugs given at the time of labour).
It is important, however, to not limit the assessment to the exploration of activity-type as adolescents may not accurately report, or be aware of, the effects of their online activities on thoughts and mood.
Respondents may not always accurately report those locations.
Maternal smoking and childhood SHS exposures may have been misclassified, although there is evidence from at least some populations that such exposures may be accurately reported by mothers (Gehring et al. 2006; Matt et al. 2000; Pickett et al. 2009).
Women may have accurately reported a DCIS as a diagnosis of breast cancer, however our data extract from the Cancer Registry was limited to invasive tumours so this was not able to be confirmed.
In other words, a participant may have accurately reported use of a medication, but because this was less than prescribed, no new dispensing of the medication was required within the three-month time horizon leaving no record in the database.
In this case, truthfulness and accuracy of our self-reported HIV data may be compromised because some health risks, such as HIV, are so sensitive that respondents may not want to accurately report them [ 40].
A common critique of Internet communities is that patients may not be able to accurately report their diagnosis and medication history, or that anonymity provides an opportunity for individuals to report misinformation.
Paradoxically, the very focusing of introspective scrutiny on pleasure, provoked by the demand to accurately report it, may, thus, turn down the gain on systems involved in representing it.
