Sentence examples for proportion of proxy from inspiring English sources

Hospital-based rather than physician-based ascertainment might decrease the proportion of proxy interviews.

Our a priori decision to conduct all analyses with and without proxy responses compensated somewhat for the high proportion of proxy responses.

In four of these, the proportion of proxy interviews was much higher in cases than in controls, and only in study 29, where controls were matched with cases on vital status, was the proportion the same.

Since the proportion of proxy respondents was higher among cases than among controls (29% and 38% of cases in Study 1 and 2, respectively, and 13% and 8% among controls), some differential misclassification of exposure might have occurred and resulted in biased OR estimates.

There were quite high proportions of proxy response, but it was reassuring that the prevalence of exposure was similar between proxy and self-respondents, and that the overall results were similar when we excluded subjects with proxy respondents from the analyses (data not shown).

A higher proportion (27%) of proxy interviews were conducted for cases than for controls (6%).

Small effect sizes were found for both male and female gender; greater proportions of self-completed responses were male and higher proportions of proxy-completed responses were female.

During the years of the study, the proportion of total proxy participants varied from 15%% to 23%% for the total population.

A limitation of this study is the high proportion (45 %) of proxy interviews (360/798) for case participants (compared to 34/1175 control interviews that were with proxies).

There were no differences between the samples with regard to socioeconomic status or proportion of mothers as proxy-raters.

To quantify neuroimaging findings, mean GM proportion (a proxy of volume) was extracted for each cluster, summed across the ROI, and adjusted for the same nuisance variables included in the VBM linear model.