Sentence examples for misclassification of births from inspiring English sources

Misclassification of births as postterm was more common in younger women, those of nonoptimal prepregnancy body weight, cigarette smokers, and women who reported last menstrual period using preferred dates of the month.

Only one study classified exposure at the time of conception, [ 15] the others classified exposure at the time of birth, this may lead to the misclassification of births to mothers who moved during their pregnancy.

Residual antibiotic effects or misclassification of birth history would likely bias toward the null.

There were probably some misclassification of birth assistants by the respondents as the midwives, nurses and CHEWs wear similar uniforms and perform similar duties at the PHC facilities.

Some misclassification of birth weight (Troy et al, 1996; Andersson et al, 2000) is unavoidable but likely nondifferential and thus, would have led to an underestimation of the true association.

Omission and misclassifications of births in the 5th year preceding the survey are one of the problems of the DHS surveys [ 21].

To make still births count as a public health concern commensurate with its burden, issues around under-reporting and misclassification of still births need to be addressed, and the lack of information on the causes of still births at sub-national levels in India has to be addressed for effective prevention and intervention programmes.

First, there may have been some misclassification of Hmong births as Laotian because of underreporting of Hmong ethnicity on the birth certificate.

Studies suggest that an exclusion of improbable gestational ages is sufficient to make misclassification of term birth to preterm birth unlikely (10).

Other contributing factors may be the periodicity of follow-up and misclassification of live births as in-migration.

Misclassification of Hmong births would result in underestimated VPTB/PTB rates for Hmong women in our study and potentially overestimate the risk of adverse outcomes among Laotian women.