An important limitation requires discussion, and that is the particular nature of a retrospective study, the relevance of which could be more debatable because time lapses differed according to patients.
Part of this project has involved gathering retrospective views on the relevance of both types of undergraduate education according to graduates.
Introductory unit students made significant pre/postunit gains on survey items measuring career awareness and self-efficacy, as well as on postunit retrospective survey items measuring relevance and self-efficacy.
However, students reported significant gains on the retrospective postunit item measuring relevance, evaluating their perceptions of the connection between biology content and their personal lives ("before this unit" mean = 3.88; "now" mean = 5.64; Figure 4).
Prospective use of continuous bedside monitoring can detect even short episodes of new-onset AF that may have only limited clinical relevance, whereas retrospective classification of AF based on available administrative databases will likely result in underreporting.
6. Relevance is relevant.
However, as Dickens 2012 was not solely retrospective but also about Dickens' relevance today, we felt it appropriate to produce a supplementary electronic version as many newspapers and journals do now.
This retrospective study describes the clinical relevance of these injuries.
Much of this literature tends to be retrospective, often analyzing the historical relevance of institutions to societies, the nature of their influence over societies and even their very historicity.
The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the relevance of the symptom "headache" in kidney transplanted patients, since few studies have considered headache as a clinically significant complication in this condition.
