Raw data on date of presentation are misleading; the risk of acquiring vivax malaria is year round, although higher in the summer months, so prophylaxis should be offered to these groups regardless of month of travel.
Dr. Togias also prepared a participant consent form that was misleading about risks and did not report adverse symptoms in another participant, the report said.
Simple factboxes - an idea from Dr Lisa Schwartz and Dr Steven Woloshin at Dartmouth Medical School - would help: Perhaps the most notorious example of patients being misled about risk occurred in October 1995, when the UK's Committee on Safety of Medicines warned doctors that a new, third-generation oral contraceptive pill doubled the risk of thrombosis.
20 21 If studies of the diagnostic accuracy of depression screening tools that include patients who already have a diagnosis or are receiving treatment are included in systematic reviews and meta-analyses without adjustment for potential bias, these reviews could provide misleading accuracy estimates, thereby misleading calculations of risk-benefit by expert panels and, thus, clinicians.
Further, if the upper age is set too high, the intuitive interpretation as a risk of getting cancer is misleading because competing risks have not been taken into account and many individuals will die from an unrelated cause before reaching age 85.
At best, they have little impact on murder investigations; at worst they risk misleading investigators and waste police time, he said.
The problem with this isn't that banks' relief efforts don't have a wider scope; it's that by describing the settlements in grandiose terms, banks and officials risk misleading the public about the scope, which, at best, can confuse people and, at worst, can set them up to fall victim to fraud.
What's worse, I have published accounts of these transgressions, and therefore risk misleading my sisters and brothers.
Alternatively, criminals tempted by offers of leniency risk misleading law enforcers to believe that the informants will be more productive than is realistic -- thus seducing officers into endorsing more risk-taking than is warranted.
Though Cochrane reviews are somewhat less problematic, most Cochrane and non-Cochrane systematic reviews fail to adequately report and handle missing data, potentially resulting in misleading judgements regarding risk of bias.
