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The phrase "active case finding" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in public health and epidemiology to refer to the proactive search for individuals with a specific condition or disease, rather than waiting for them to seek care.
Example: "The health department implemented active case finding to identify and treat individuals with tuberculosis in the community."
Alternatives: "proactive case detection" or "systematic case identification".
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As RNTCP moves to further increase case detection by implementing more "active" case finding activities, these issues will need to be considered and addressed.
This may reflect the difference between the active case finding approach in the survey and the passive casing finding approach in practice.
Active case finding and passive reporting from clinicians and the public in Minnesota through December 2009 did not detect additional cases.
Alternatively the advantage of active case finding in improving case detection is limited due to the associated high cost in resource-constrained settings [5], [18].
Active case finding continued through December 2009 via regular contact with onsite Plant A medical staff and neurologists in the community.
There was no active case finding.
Active case finding detected 87% of community decedents.
Only 1 was detected by active case finding.
By active case finding unknown cases were detected.
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More recently, provider-initiated TB screening (i.e. active case-finding) has become an important part of HIV care in resource-poor settings including Ethiopia [9] [14].
The latter is unlikely, given widespread media attention and active case-finding at that time that targeted travellers reporting influenza-like illness.
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