Sentence examples for ascertainment that from inspiring English sources

relied on cancer diagnoses reported through the SRTR, which has cancer ascertainment that is less systematic and comprehensive than cancer registries, and likely less complete than within RCTs.

13– 14 Importantly, we have no evidence of a systematic bias in case ascertainment that may affect the validity of our results.

Further research is needed to develop new methods of location ascertainment that accommodate 3-dimensional building plans and to assess the accuracy before implementation in environmental health studies.

Furthermore, such estimates should always be regarded in the context of the imperfect sensitivity of case ascertainment that results in downward biases in prevalence proportions.

In order to establish robust methods of surveillance for those surgical site infections that occur post discharge, there is a need to develop a method of case ascertainment that is valid and reliable post discharge.

To test this, we used information on the region of ascertainment that was available from the UK 1958 Birth Cohort and UK Blood Service, and analysed genotype frequencies based on subdivisions of the UK into four major regions, namely (1) Scotland, (2) northern England, (3) Midlands and (4) southern England (see ESM Fig.  2).

Patients' name and the names of their treating doctors will be obtained from the QCR using a rapid ascertainment procedure that will minimise the time from diagnosis to ascertainment to approximately four months.

The probability that a SNP is ascertained is not equal for all HapMap SNPs, but rather is a function of the specific ascertainment condition that was applied.

Therefore, the increased effect size could be due to the specific sample ascertainment scheme that we have used, that is, we sampled from the extreme tails of a quantitative trait distribution based on BMI.

An ascertainment strategy that focused on the diseases of highest priority (e.g., AMD, glaucoma, Fuchs, cataract) could be employed to optimize the case-control study for detection of other traits of secondary interest.

The ascertainment bias that may be present may affect LD estimation.