case ascertainment
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case
noun
uk/keɪs/us/keɪs/
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Thecaseascertainmentrate was 71.0, 57.3 and 53.7 % for children <1 year, >1 to 2 years and >2 years of age, respectively.
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Two sources ofcaseascertainmentwere used : school sickness absence records and a questionnaire to parents.
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Subjects were outpatients obtained by consecutive newcaseascertainment.
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This gradual ' dropout ' over increasing age would thus bias towards a higher rate ofcaseascertainmentfor younger subjects.
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Overall these studies are larger and possibly have bettercaseascertainmentthan the studies investigating all clefts grouped together.
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Limitations of the study include completeness ofcaseascertainmentand the absence of data collected from a patient or community perspective.
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Since the age group-specificcaseascertainmentrates were known, the crude data could be corrected accordingly for incidence calculations.
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Differences in study design,caseascertainmentand survival are possible confounding factors.
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In the consecutive newcaseascertainmentschema, all new patients at the participating facilities were assessed.
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The increasedcaseascertainmentduring implementation may have masked a reduction of cases achieved by the vaccination programme.
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Secondly there is a problem ofcaseascertainment.
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These findings may reflect differences incaseascertainmentbetween studies.
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Figure 2a illustrates how scenarios combining lowcaseascertainmentwith selective breeding can match both the outbreak duration and annual incidence estimates obtained from the postal-survey data.
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Caseascertainmentalso requires an accurate case-finding method.
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