Sentence examples for use a patient sample from inspiring English sources

Unlike a pre-pilot study (see page 21), a pilot study cannot use a patient sample.

Instead, there are good arguments to use a patient sample, because these people are more familiar with the symptoms of the disease than non-patients.

Therefore, an external validation using a patient sample is recommended prior to using these mapping algorithms in a dataset with children in poor health.

Our study used a patient sample which was enrolled in a cluster randomised controlled trial (CRCT; trial registration: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN15716049).

Whenever possible we used a patient matched blood sample as a control.

A multi-step AM analysis of ESKD patients, using a new patient sample set, and a different SNP marker panel, replicates the previously reported identification of a genetic disease phenotype risk locus located on chromosome 22, which contributes to the increased risk for non-diabetic ESKD in AA.

We previously demonstrated the direct detection of a bacterial pathogen from a patient sample using 454 high-throughput DNA sequencing [20].

In this study, we compared weights on EQ-5D valuations using algorithms developed in the UK, US, and Japan general populations, but cross-validated using a Thai patient sample.

However, they used a mixed patient sample involving different lumbar spine surgery procedures, and they used cutoff values similar to the MCID (and not related to a substantial improvement).

Since the CARD15 gene product and other CARD proteins function in innate immunity, we investigated the impact of germline variation at the CARD4, CARD8 and CARD15 loci on the risk for sporadic CRC, using a large patient sample from Northern Germany.

Therefore, we would like to determine the differences and agreements among these three countries' preference weighted scores (the three countries are located in three different continents as well) using a Thai patient sample.