As with other studies evaluation, the study was based on retrospective examination of case records [ 6, 7] that are typically more feasible than examining inpatient care prospectively by observation.
It lets doctors test hypotheses that retrospective examination, relying on memory, cannot address reliably.
Collins, W. E. & Jeffery, G. M. A retrospective examination of sporozoite- and trophozoite-induced infections with Plasmodium falciparum: development of parasitologic and clinical immunity during primary infection.
Retrospective examination of the time course of the detected signals may be used to understand the nature of the activity.
Under certain conditions, retrospective examination of archival samples by molecular techniques may therefore provide valuable epidemiological data.
His writings have been translated into 26 languages, including his most influential book, Orientalism (1978), a retrospective examination of the way the West perceived the East.
Israel has contended that since the cease-fire agreement was never honored, the committee's original assignment -- a retrospective examination of the month of violence up to the point when they reached the accord -- was no longer valid.
In view of the government's half-hearted response to the barely adequate Butler recommendations, it might also consider whether we need, as a longstop, something more than an ad hoc system for the retrospective examination of failures and follies.
Interestingly, a retrospective examination of all road traffic casualties seen at a local hospital in Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates, over a 12-month period, found that there was a greater number of injuries during Ramadan than during other months (Bener et al, 1992).
Furthermore, retrospective examination of 14 clinical fMRI examinations reveals that in patients where the standard statistical approach yields activation, there is a measurable gain in model performance in adopting the flexible statistical model, with little or no penalty in lost sensitivity.
Palmer, K, Newell, R, and Gillingham, K. Retrospective Examination of Demand-side Energy-efficiency Policies.
