Sentence examples for suitable comparison groups from inspiring English sources

Future research could incorporate data from a larger group of patients with suitable comparison groups to make quantitative comparisons.

Future investigations might control for case mix and time trends, employ suitable comparison groups, and consider other analytic approaches for analyzing time series data such as interrupted time series data, or ARIMA methods [ 44].

A recent commentary by Thomson (2008) reflects on some of the obstacles to effective evaluation of such interventions, including difficulties with tracking individuals in regeneration areas, identifying suitable comparison groups or areas, and monitoring all components of these complex interventions in order to identify mechanisms leading to health changes.

A final limitation was the lack of a suitable comparison group to compare changes in falls.

One crucial and challenging aspect of our study was the identification of a suitable comparison group.

Because the interventions were implemented in all four UK countries, we had no suitable comparison group.

However, none of these studies used a suitable comparison group in order to assess the outcomes against standard care.

Identifying and recruiting a suitable comparison group would therefore have been difficult and might have introduced selection and response bias.

It would have been useful to have a sample that represented all in utero exposed adolescents in the population and a suitable comparison group.

The lack of a suitable comparison group that had cataract, but did not have surgery was a limitation of the study.

Carefully designed epidemiologic studies that evaluate NoV prevalence in children with diarrhea and a suitable comparison group and that use sensitive molecular assays will help further define target groups that would benefit from vaccines and other interventions.