During 1972 73 in the region of North West England covered by the Manchester Children's Tumour Registry (MCTR), 91% of known childhood cancer cases were ascertained to the MCTR from Hospital Activity Analysis records (a predecessor of HES), 93% from the regional CR, and 93% from clinicians; 98 99% could have been ascertained from any two of these three sources (Leck et al, 1976).
At least, that's what the guests at the back of the room thought they heard him say, which provoked perplexed mutterings and wary smiles until it was ascertained, from a listener with keener hearing, that what Hertog had actually said is that the books are almost all long.
Rules of thumb for preliminary design can be ascertained from a qualitative examination of the governing equations of flow, which elucidate the relationships between 'core' variables – flow rates, air temperatures, heat inputs and building geometry.
In brief, schizophrenic patients were ascertained from a variety of inpatient and outpatient centers in south Minnesota.
U.S nativity was ascertained from a single question asking the respondent whether or not they were born in the U.S. Socioeconomic measures were taken from the Parental Questionnaire.
Data on ITN household possession and use were ascertained from a net roster, while information on malaria-related knowledge, beliefs and practices were obtained from a standardized women's questionnaire [19].
Control individuals (10,000 autosomal alleles, 7197 X chromosome alleles and 2803 Y chromosome alleles) were ascertained from a Midwest population-based sample from Minnesota and a more ethnically and geographically diverse sample of hemophilia families.
Cancer cases were ascertained from a registry and cancer types were studied separately.
Self-reports of medically diagnosed and treated illnesses were ascertained from a standard checklist of disorders.
It is also expected since the insertion alleles were ascertained from a non-African genome.
