Meanings
- not comparableHaving both retrospective and prospective components
An ambispective cohort study of 129 patients with osteomyelitis was conducted and the proportions for qualitative variables and central tendency and dispersion measures for quantitative variables were calculated; the latter were tested for normality using the Shapiro-Wilk test.
2015 December 18, “Differences in the Clinical Outcome of Osteomyelitis by Treating Specialty: Orthopedics or Infectology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin
From ambi- + Latin spectum + -ive, on the pattern of retrospective and prospective.
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