Sentence examples for may cause misclassification from inspiring English sources

None of the studies discussed the possibility that dropout may cause misclassification, 53 or the direction of possibly biased estimates.

We acknowledge that the small false positive (1/1000) and false negative (1/10,000) match rate inherent in automated fingerprinting systems may cause misclassification of patient data.

CVD mortality data from death certificates is reliable for young and middle aged persons but may cause misclassification in elderly [ 31].

Second, the reliance on ICD-10 diagnostic codes to identify incident fractures may cause misclassification of incident hip fractures due to the inherent nature of claims data such as voluntary or non-voluntary miscoding behavior.

It is precisely the divergence at higher values reported in our paper (i.e. those more likely to be associated with brain damage) that may cause misclassification of patient status and prognosis; hence the need for standardization.

43 These symptoms are distinct from idiopathic PD, although they may cause misclassification of PD cases that would bias the results for these associations, particularly in the liver disease category.

Furthermore, non-adherence to prescribed hypnotics as well as the left truncation of exposure data with no data on hypnotic use before July 2005, may also cause misclassification of our definition of poor sleep.

Causes of death were ascertained from the Danish Register of Causes of Death and may cause potential misclassification.

Unfortunately, no validation study of pneumonia diagnoses has been conducted in the DPC database, which may cause potential misclassification.

d) Hematological parameter categories were based on a single assessment of blood, which may cause a misclassification bias.

Our study is limited by our use of air pollution measurements from a single stationary ambient monitoring site as our exposure measure, which may cause exposure misclassification.