The phrase "ability to detect cases" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the capacity or skill to identify specific situations or instances, often in fields like medicine, law, or data analysis.
Example: "The new software enhances the ability to detect cases of fraud more efficiently than before."
Alternatives: "capacity to identify cases" or "skill in recognizing cases".
The practical consequences of this reduced ability to detect cases of scrapie are immediate.
Secondly, our ability to detect cases of disseminated disease was perhaps suboptimal and we possibly missed cases and deaths due to such disease.
Moreover, it likely represents an improvement over previous strategies used to classify children as cases or non-cases and which showed relatively low ability to detect cases [ 16].
This seems possible in primary health care, as in our study GPs demonstrated their ability to detect cases in need for treatment.
The key concern for pathological based surveillance is the ability to detect cases of SBV malformation, while the purpose of the serological surveillance was to provide an accurate quantification of the extent of SBV exposure to be extrapolated nationally.
The evidence presented in this study has two applications: to allow interpretation of case distribution taking account of the sample distribution [ 4] and to allow design for future sampling, ideally relative to disease occurrence, which would maintain the ability to detect cases as the disease becomes rare.
Finally, although this study demonstrated the accuracy of the Punjabi and English versions to detect 'cases' and borderline anxiety cases, caution is warranted in their ability to detect borderline cases of depression.
A general criticism of the HADS in cancer screening has been issues relating to the instruments poor sensitivity (ability to detect true cases) and specificity (ability to detect true non-cases) when tested against a 'gold standard', typically, a structured clinical interview [ 24, 32].
In the case of PSI, this could represent its higher ability to detect mild cases; although, this could be explained by the small number of patients in our study.
Many surveillance designs, such as sentinel, risk-based or syndromic surveillance have the ability to detect rare cases and can be highly sensitive.
The EMSE has also been administered at later waves of the study, and later papers will examine longitudinal aspects of the EMSE and its ability to detect new cases of dementia.
