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Factors confounding the assessment of reflection: a critical review [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2011 Background Reflection on experience is an increasingly critical part of professional development and lifelong learning. There is, however, continuing uncertainty about how best to put principle into practice, particularly as regards assessment.
Koole Sebastiaan +6 more
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Confounding factors in rhinological research
Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, 2013 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Basic science studies directed at understanding the inflammatory mechanisms in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) are increasing, yet their relevance to the underlying disease process is often conflicting and confounded by the enrollment of ...
Pant, H. +3 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 BackgroundThe aim of this study was to assess the electrophysiological and other influencing factors correlating with symptom severity in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) under three different conditions: baseline, stress exposure, and ...
Jan Sarlon +5 more
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Cytokines in schizophrenia: Hope or hype?
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2016 Although there is a cumulative evidence for the inflammation pathophysiology in schizophrenia, it has not been conclusively proven yet. One reason for this is the lack of studies that have controlled for major confounding factors such as obesity, smoking,
Maju Mathew Koola
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Host and Environmental Factors Affecting the Intestinal Microbiota in Chickens
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 The initial development of intestinal microbiota in poultry plays an important role in production performance, overall health and resistance against microbial infections. Multiplexed sequencing of 16S ribosomal RNA gene amplicons is often used in studies,
Jannigje G. Kers +6 more
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Bias in occupational epidemiology studies. [PDF]
, 2007 The design of occupational epidemiology studies should be based on the need to minimise random and systematic error. The latter is the focus of this paper, and includes selection bias, information bias and confounding.
Pearce, Neil +2 more
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How authors select covariates in the multivariate analysis of cancer studies in 10 oncology journals in Korea: a descriptive study [PDF]
Science EditingPurpose Cancer is the leading cause of death in Korea, leading many investigators to focus on cancer research. We present the current practice of variable selection methods for multivariate analyses in cancer studies recently published in major oncology ...
Mi Ah Han +6 more
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Prediction of confounding factors.
, 2023 Averaged results of model performance for predicting demographic and technical confounding factors were reported as area under the receiver operating characteristics (AUROC) for the confounded and regressed ensembles.
Hyungsoon Im (1271112) +2 more
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Are the effects of psychosocial exposures attributable to confounding? Evidence from a prospective observational study on psychological stress and mortality [PDF]
, 2001 <b>STUDY OBJECTIVES</b> To examine the association between perceived psychological stress and cause specific mortality in a population where perceived stress was not associated with material disadvantage.
Hart, C. +14 more
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