Sentence examples for using a prevalence estimate from inspiring English sources

Sample size was determined using a prevalence estimate of 10% for blindness and severe visual impairment among those aged 50 years and above.

Using a prevalence estimate of 8% VI, power of 80%, 20% precision on either side of the prevalence estimate (6.4 9.6%), 95% confidence limits and 10% non-response, the sample size required was 345 individuals.

25 Based on the number of registered births in Australia in 2010 (nearly 300 000), and using a prevalence estimate of 15%, a possible 45 000 women per year may experience some degree of postnatal depression, clearly an enormous public health problem.

We performed an observational cost-of-illness study [ 33, 34] for MS, a chronic disease, using a prevalence approach, which entails estimating all costs for a particular population.

A sample size of 339 was estimated using a prevalence of 33% for bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB (15), margin of error of 5%and95%5% CI.

This study estimated socioeconomic burden using a prevalence-based approach and estimated the costs arising from CDI patients and mortality during the period of 2008 2011 in Korea.

Overall, the US rates were estimated using a prevalence-weighted sum of the age-adjusted rates for the obese and non-obese women.

A sample size of 323 patients with T2D was required to obtain a 95% confidence interval of +/− 5% margin of error around a prevalence estimate of use of dietary counseling services in Lebanon of 30%.

Secondly, we used a prevalence survey, not incidence data, to estimate the HAI numbers and distribution.

Our study used a prevalence rather than incidence approach to estimate cost-of-illness in part because influenza is not a chronic disease and in part because of data availability.

We used a prevalence-based epidemiologic model to estimate the annual direct costs of hyponatremia in the U.S. [ 14].