That's particularly true if the patient is deceased—"It's difficult to ascertain a cause of death when you don't have a core body temperature," notes George Luber, associate director for climate change at the CDC.
We adapted the hierarchies used in the Obaapa study[ 16] - one of the few which validated hierarchical algorithms using verbal autopsy data to ascertain a primary cause of stillbirths - with a few modifications.
But with 10 worms, we've ascertained a dose that does not cause symptoms.
VA is a well-known instrument for ascertaining the cause of death based on information obtained from close relatives through systematic retrospective questioning [ 12].
"And no one told you to stop doing that?" I asked her, likely ascertaining the cause of her pain.
Case-control studies are most useful for ascertaining the cause of rare events, such as rare cancers.
We conclude that presenting symptoms per se do not help in ascertaining the cause of syncope except shortness of breath.
This emphasized that patients with cardiogenic syncope need hospitalization, but ascertaining the cause of syncope in most of the cases at the time of presentation is very difficult.
In our study, there were difficulties in ascertaining the cause of death.
The importance of completing both diaries for ascertaining the cause and likely most successful treatment should be explained.
Paul Casey will undergo an MRI scan this week to ascertain the cause of a toe injury that has dogged him over the first half of the summer.
