Sentence examples for misclassification of mortality from inspiring English sources

Loss to follow-up may have led to a misclassification of mortality as loss to follow up.

We assessed the potential misclassification of mortality among those lost to follow-up by assuming that 50% of the patients lost to follow-up had died.

A further limitation is that we did we did not assess mortality between groups; several deaths will inevitably have occurred among patients lost to follow-up [12], and given the substantial difference in follow-up rates between groups, we considered that any mortality estimate would likely be subject to substantial bias due to misclassification of mortality among patients lost to follow up.

Second, potential misclassification of nonspecific mortality as CVD-related maytality may have introduced nondifferential biases, in which case the estimates reported herein may have been underestimated.

Whether this reflects situations where risk factors are not yet translating into mortality rates, or whether VA methods led to some misclassification of diabetes mortality into, for example, cardiovascular deaths is uncertain.

Cause of death was ascertained via NDI linkage of NHANES III data and not independently adjudicated and there is potential of misclassification of CVD mortality.

4 34 Moreover, the underestimation and misclassification of suicide mortality might be more common in the provinces with lower social rank; therefore, we expect the social disparity to be more profound than what has been reported here.

A study in Taiwan (8) found that factors contributing to the under-reporting and misclassification of maternal mortality included: care sought for non-obstetric reasons, death from non-obstetric causes, care received in private health facilities and death occurring at home with certification by a non-obstetrician-gynecologist.

First, vital status was accurately and completely ascertained in contrast to most programs [ 27, 34], thus limiting the impact of mortality misclassification.

There may have been misclassification of stillbirths and neonatal mortality but we have included perinatal mortality to help assess the difference in trends.

Deaths records with missing Aboriginal identifiers were nearly twice as likely to be recorded as Aboriginal in hospital records compared with death records that did have identifiers, suggesting that misclassification of Aboriginal status in mortality data is not random but biased towards under-recording of Aboriginal status.