Sentence examples for misclassification could have from inspiring English sources

Fourth, since this retrospective study used ICD-9 coding, patient misclassification could have occurred and led to under- or over-reporting.

However, as it is common in case-control studies for cases to over report exposures which they think may be involved in the causal pathway of their disease, it is also possible that differential misclassification could have led to bias towards a positive association.

Misclassification could have occurred as a result of this assumption.

Therefore a non-systematic misclassification could have occurred among the four categories.

Such misclassification could have biased these studies' results towards lower risk estimates.

Misclassification could have occurred for self-reported risk factors, such as smoking and medication.

Nonetheless, misclassifications could have occurred due to endocrinologist error, false-positive or -negative laboratory test results, incomplete clinical histories and prescription records, or primary care physician errors.

This account requires that one accepts the reported exposure and disease information in the epidemiology studies as true, even though the lack of precise exposure data likely led to exposure measurement error and/or exposure misclassification that could have biased results, and disease misclassification in these studies likely led to unreliable risk estimates.

Furthermore, differential misclassification bias could have occurred because conservatively treated CTS patient have had no preoperatively consultation.

This exposure misclassification bias could have distorted exposure-response trends in comparisons involving more than two levels.

Misclassification bias could have occurred in this study since the respondents reported detailed lifetime physical activity patterns.