case ascertainment

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meanings of case

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