Sentence examples for test selection bias from inspiring English sources

As mentioned earlier, test selection bias was unlikely to affect our results appreciably during the years of study, an interval during which compliance with full sepsis protocols was likely to be highest.

It reflects, therefore, an interval during which compliance with full laboratory testing to detect bacterial sepsis – an integral part of this strategy – was likely to be highest (unlikely to have become degraded by the passage of time), mitigating the potential for test selection bias [ 9].

Accordingly, there is a significant pre-test selection bias in this prospective series.

Given the likely pre-test selection bias, positive and negative predictive values were considered as more relevant comparators of diagnostic performance when compared with sensitivity and specificity.

Accordingly they have, in essence, evaluated the incremental diagnostic utility of PET in a group of patients in whom there is an intrinsic pre-test selection bias.

To test for selection bias, age, sex, nationality, test result and newly reached participant were compared between participants with and without questionnaire using Chi square test.

In an examination of end-of-course evaluations from over 3000 courses, Goos and Salomons (2017) disaggregate overall participation rates to test for selection bias in students' participation.

We separated these groups in the analysis as one way to test for selection bias.

To test for selection bias, those with and without birth weight data were compared on age, education, cigarette smoking, alcohol use and estrogen use.

In order to test for selection bias within patients enrolled in the diabetes screening programme (SCI-DC database), comparisons were made between those who did not attend any retinopathy screening and those who were screened at least once, using the Mann-Whitney test.

However, there are important limitations as well; first, we use the existence of creatinine assessment to define our study cohort, which although reflects standard clinical practices, limits our study to subjects who have sought medical care and had a creatinine test undertaken (selection bias).