Sentence examples for misclassification of children from inspiring English sources

The method of extrapolation of CD4 cell percentage based on absolute CD4 cell count risks misclassification of children with lymphopenia or lymphocytosis.

Thus, there may have been some misclassification of children as having BPBP when in fact they only had a fracture.

The second important cause of disagreement between administrative records and birth certificates was the misclassification of children whose parents had a different race (i.e. multiple races).

Brown and Rhoads (2008) cited the CDC claim that "given current laboratory methods, risk for misclassification of children is high" for the current BLL of < 10 μg/dL.

Our finding that misclassification of children as obese based on parent-report was associated with underestimation of height is in line with Shields et al. [ 13].

To reduce potential misclassification of children with wheezing as asthmatics, we required that a given medication regimen be dispensed twice in order for a child to be counted as having asthma.

Repeated BMI measures will reduce misclassification of child adiposity.

The current study suggests another plausible explanation: that misclassification of child OP exposure biased results toward the null hypothesis.

This is a potential source of exposure misclassification for children whose addresses were not close to power lines.

Using our highest estimate of misclassification, if 50% of children recorded as unvaccinated were actually partially vaccinated and the same proportion of partially vaccinated children actually fully vaccinated, the revised numbers would be 1.6 million incompletely vaccinated children, (of whom 0.4 million completely unvaccinated) leading to 0.7 million susceptible children.

17 Finally, the misclassification of these 381 children as non-cerebral palsy in our analyses is negligible in the total population of 616 658 reference children.