The phrase "a strict case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a situation or example that adheres closely to a specific rule or standard without exceptions.
Example: "In a strict case of plagiarism, the student would face immediate expulsion from the university."
Alternatives: "a clear instance" or "a definitive example".
Reliability of the data is enhanced by following Yin's (2003) recommendation to design and follow a strict case study protocol.
Q: You're saying these people should not have been tested at all? C.D.: During the [2003] SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome] outbreak, there was a strict case definition.
If you think that competing appetitive attitudes could give rise to a strict case of standard akrasia, you should recall how Socrates would have to explain these cases of psychological conflict in order to avoid multiplying his divisions in the soul.
However, most of these inferences derived from confirmed cases that rely on laboratory results showing the presence of influenza virus genome in the respiratory tract of the affected individuals, selected on the basis of a strict case definition that tended to exclude less severe cases.
Our study investigated this association with a case case approach that used a strict case definition.
When a strict case definition is used for cat-scratch disease, this titer has a sensitivity of ≈80% and a specificity of 93%to96%6% (20, 21, 26 ).
Thus, the approach to case selection described in this paper may be tightened using a stricter case selection criterion if the objectives of the study require greater specificity.
Had a stricter case definition been used, as has been suggested for measles (28 ), even fewer cases of viral encephalitis would have been identified in the laboratory system.
Paradoxically, the Dutch general practitioners, who reported a higher seasonal ILI percentage, worked with a stricter case definition than in the UK.
In this study, we have used a rather strict case definition of pain, with a frequency of at least once a week, for a relatively short recall period (during the previous 3 months) in order to avoid childhood recall difficulties, which have been previously documented [ 14, 38, 39].
Among studies that included all self-reported cases (11, 13, 26, 27, 33), 2 stated that validity of self-reports was reasonable (13, 33) and 1 that results did not differ substantially when using a more strict case definition (11).
