On the other hand, we discuss how false negatives and false positives could obscure the outcome.
Imprecise or incomplete psychometric procedures that are employed during scale development are likely to obscure the outcome.
In an effort to further obscure the outcome of interest from the target population, field assessors also inquired about and recorded presence of fever and cough within the past seven days.
This obscures the outcome and allows no clear answer to the question whether intramuscular needle placement is precise for a specific target muscle and a specific injection location.
Such outcomes obscure the level of progress in the area of educational gamification.
Measuring an invention only by its eventual effect obscures other possible outcomes and, finally, distorts the historical record.
10– 15 Second, in the Cox regression model, because the radiotherapy dose is high, we neglected the fact that there was a relatively narrow range of dose, and we did not investigate the effect of total radiation dose on treatment outcome, which may obscure the important dose response effect addressed by Willner et al. 17 Thus, the total dose of radiotherapy still should be emphasized.
But as explored extensively in the literature of public administration, a focus on outputs – like more police on the beat – can obscure more far-reaching outcomes like safer neighbourhoods, or healthy children.
Nearly all the contextual barriers to behaviour change identified above are likely to: obscure the potential negative outcomes of risky sexual behaviour; undermine intentions or goals to avoid such behaviour; undermine self-efficacy or perceived control to do so; and create or reinforce norms that encourage risk behaviours.
In addition, perioperative treatment, such as non-invasive ventilation, may have also obscured the effect of OSA on the perioperative outcome.
