retrospective examination , także: retrospective study

We obtained data by retrospective examination of hospital records.

This section of the magazine alternates between two types of retrospective examinations.

His retrospective examination of his personal development is presented with what seems to be humility, objectivity and emotional distance.

Such retrospective examinations of personality and mental condition are often allowed in civil trials, usually pertaining to medical malpractice or insurance claims.

As a nation will seldom declare that it is acting as such, this usually entails a retrospective examination of state conduct.

In his memoirs Helms wrote, "When Blake was arrested in 1961 a retrospective examination of the tunnel material was initiated.

"Toward a New Science of Social Life: A Retrospective Examination of 'The Behavior of Law'."

When a control patient died and her cause of death was determined to be breast cancer, a retrospective examination was made to determine the date of diagnosis of her disease.

A later album, Freeman 2, would repeat Freeman's themes with new music, and with the occasional retrospective examination of the influence of the first Freeman album.

Israel has contended that since the cease-fire agreement was never honored, the committee's original assignment - a retrospective examination of the month of violence up to the point when they reached the accord - was no longer valid.

(In the opening of the book, Chalmers instigates a sequence of events that leads to Boone being assassinated; much of what follows is a retrospective examination of what got things to that point.)