retroactively

Examples of retrospectively

retrospectively
The data were collected prospectively in 40%, retrospectively in 26%, and the method was unclear for 31%.
Our findings highlight the difficulties in collecting information on seroconversion illness both retrospectively and prospectively.
Interpreted retrospectively, the difficulties are usually ascribed to her previous behaviour.
This resolution of the semantic contradiction between the verses renders them, retrospectively, as a narrative of growing knowledge of hidden wrong-doing.
One controversial debate in electoral studies is whether people judge the performance of a government retrospectively or prospectively.
The adequacy of exposure is often best judged retrospectively, when the children are older and demonstrate mastery of both languages.
This is, of course, an operational advantage : after all bygones are bygones and stock market opportunities cannot be exploited retrospectively.
The beliefs were assessed retrospectively from audiotapes of exposure sessions, and potentially relevant beliefs about safety, guilt, and shame were not reported.
Retrospectively reviewing fellowship applications submitted over a 3-year period, these authors assessed the prevalence of research misrepresentation and compared such activity between subspecialties.
The intent of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the recognition of delirium in a large cohort of hospice patients by interdisciplinary hospice care teams.
These findings suggest that a developmental approach to subgrouping may not offer incremental predictive validity beyond approaches that utilize several static variables measured retrospectively.
The communication development of several graphic-symbol-using individuals with cerebral palsy is described retrospectively.
This retrospectively shows that in a moment of national crisis, right-wing voters preferred to lend their support to a more stable and moderate party.
Political controls can operate both prospectively, to shape the policy executive government adopts, and retrospectively, to evaluate how policy has been administered.
A total of 53 million computerized recorded deaths, which occurred from 1901 to 2000 were analysed retrospectively.
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