Sentence examples for missing a proportion from inspiring English sources

The effect of restricting screening to a subpopulation of high-risk individuals will markedly reduce the cost of screening programmes at the expense of missing a proportion of lung cancers in individuals below the cutoff.

There is a considerable risk of missing a proportion of cases of acute UTI in infants and children younger than three years when using dipstick testing, as frequent bladder emptying leads to a lack of urinary nitrite [ 27].

PCR based methods generally have a better detection limit compared to microscopy [11], but both methods likely miss a proportion of clones.

During the 90 days blanking period, we missed a proportion of events.

In studies with no confirmatory testing, A1C will seem to miss a proportion of fasting glucose-defined cases of diabetes.

Thus, although the Xpert assay missed a proportion of tuberculosis diagnoses, these were typically in patients with less advanced immunodeficiency.

However, a recent study reported a considerable size overlap between CTCs and leukocytes [ 20], so that size-based filter systems probably miss a proportion of CTCs.

Thus, though death certificates may miss a proportion of stroke deaths, those deaths that are identified as stroke deaths are virtually all correct.

Studies without such linkage will have missed a proportion of these deaths because postdischarge deaths will have been difficult to capture.

One limitation to this retrospective study was the irregular nature of surveillance from both clinical and environmental sources, which potentially missed a proportion of asymptomatic colonization, and potential environmental reservoirs, due to the selective nature of environmental sampling.

Also, in the particular case of cancer network I, the Thames Cancer Registry covers only a small part, and it is likely that we have missed a proportion of chemotherapy episodes which took place in the part of this network which is covered by the adjacent cancer registry.