a ocultação da mesma

06:58 Oct 12, 2013
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Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / Systematic review of the literature
Portuguese term or phrase: a ocultação da mesma
'do not ensure that it is blind'?

A Tabela 1 mostra as características dos dois ensaios que compararam ranibizumab e bevacizumab na DMI (en- saio IVAN e CATT).7,8,9 Foi excluído o ensaio Subramanian et al40 por apenas ter incluído 28 doentes e o ensaio Bis- was et al41 devido ao elevado viés de seleção (**o método de aleatorização não assegura a ocultação da mesma**) e devido ao elevado viés de atrito (não foram tidos em con- sideração os resultados dos doentes que abandonaram o estudo).
Muriel Vasconcellos
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1did not ensure the anonymity of the patients
T o b i a s
3 +1concealment
MamaG


  

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não assegura a ocultação da mesma
did not ensure the anonymity of the patients


Explanation:
seleção . . . <da mesma<


or 'anonymity of the group'

Human resources: Members call on the Authority to address its weaknesses in recruitment procedures, which put at risk the transparency of the procedures. They acknowledge, in particular, from the Court of Auditors that the Authority did not ensure the anonymity of the written tests and decided pass marks for the various stages of the selection process after the evaluation process had already started;
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/printficheglobal.p...

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I see also 'blindness', but I think anonymity sounds better.

The procedure did not ensure complete blindness for the last subjects, insofar as the experimenter knew what condition slots still needed to be filled; ...
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...


T o b i a s
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agree  Margarida Ataide
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concealment


Explanation:
just another possible suggestion. Snip from the url below, entitled "Randomization to protect against selection bias in health-care trials", says: "The review authors made significant efforts to make the groups compared (randomized versus non-randomized trials, and adequate versus inadequate allocation concealment)"


    Reference: http://apps.who.int/rhl/education/MR000012_seuca_com/en/
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agree  Marlene Curtis
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