0 in a way that relates to or involves thinking about something that happened in the past: --
Retrospectively, I wished I had never gone to that conference.
1 with effect from a date in the past before a law, decision, etc. was approved: --
Political controls can operate both prospectively, to shape the policy executive government adopts, and retrospectively, to evaluate how policy has been administered.
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.
The communication development of several graphic-symbol-using individuals with cerebral palsy is described retrospectively.
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 intent of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the recognition of delirium in a large cohort of hospice patients by interdisciplinary hospice care teams.
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 beliefs were assessed retrospectively from audiotapes of exposure sessions, and potentially relevant beliefs about safety, guilt, and shame were not reported.
This is, of course, an operational advantage : after all bygones are bygones and stock market opportunities cannot be exploited retrospectively.
