We hypothesized that sampling sleep for a prolonged period in a patient's normal environment may give a more representative assessment of sleep quality than a single-night polysomnogram, and that impaired sleep quality would correlate with pulmonary disease severity and self-assessed sleep quality.
However, an advantage of carrying out interviews is that the activities could be tested in a one-to-one capacity, which gave us a more representative insight into the quality and the appropriateness of the activities.
Passive consent led to a higher participation rate and a more representative sample without compromising data quality.
17 If these are made clear to children from the outset of the study, our findings support the use of passive consent in dietary surveys to obtain a higher participation rate, and a more representative sample, without compromising data quality.
Investment in developing this evidence-base is required to ensure that guidelines are more representative, and that the best quality of care is provided to all women irrespective of ethnicity.
The Tap Mun and Tung Chung stations are located in remote areas of Hong Kong, whereas the Tsuen Wan station is located close to the geographic center of Hong Kong and thus is likely to be more representative of Hong Kong's air quality in general.
Among these factors, the impact of obstacles on the communication quality is a more representative characteristic in urban scenario.
Moreover, in some ways wines from the average-quality vintages are more representative of their region than are wines from the greatest vintages.
Applying this assumption in the higher quality studies with potentially more representative populations, at least 19%, 20%and31%1% of patients had an unfavourable pain outcome after total knee replacement.
Frequent assessment provides less biased and more representative sampling of patient symptoms, functioning and quality of life indicators than single assessments which are susceptible to recall bias and other errors [ 2].
The exploration stage (2b) offers the opportunity to obtain higher quality evidence in a more representative patient population and to deal with factors that could hinder the conduct of a proper methodological evaluation.
