Sentence examples for misclassification of treatment from inspiring English sources
Thus widespread misclassification of treatment outcome is unlikely to have occurred.
However, immunologic criteria to predict which patients have not achieved virological suppression results in significant misclassification of treatment responses [11].
During the study, misclassification of treatment outcomes in the TB register was identified by the study investigators in 1.4% (n = 13), relative to the treatment cards and these were corrected during data entry.
As TB is the most frequent opportunistic infection in HIV-infected patients in our setting, it is possible that the decreased CD4 counts in patients after TB treatment may partly account for the high rates of misclassification of treatment failure based on the WHO immunological criteria, which have been reported in a number of recent articles from sub-Saharan Africa [45], [51] [56].
Misclassification of treatment status per se is another source of potential error.
However, it appears unlikely that there would be a systematic misclassification of treatment modality, favouring the most affluent patients.
Daily antibiotic recording does not prevent misclassification of antibiotic treatment as active, whereas it was eventually inactive due to poor PK/PD optimization.
We have shown that the effect of misclassification of antiretroviral treatment status on estimates of the prevalence of TDR may be appreciable, even if the rate of misclassification is low.
Second, our definition of lung-cancer specific treatment (chemotherapy, radiation) was based on HCPCS and ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes; any coding inaccuracies coulung-cancer specificficatreatmenthese treatments.
The latter may have resulted in underestimation of the statin effect because of misclassification of periods without treatment.
Nevertheless, if present, the misclassification of participants to treatment approaches is likely to have been non-differential which would have diluted any observed associations.
