The Court is not required in this case to ascertain the scope of the phrase "general welfare of the United States," or to determine whether an appropriation in aid of agriculture falls within it.
Potential cases of diabetes ascertained by these sources were verified against medical and pharmacy records.
13, 14 We obtained, by review of the case records and outpatient lists, details of the detection and management of all cases of PCHI ascertained in the birth cohort described above.
The numerator is the number of cases that are notified and the denominator is the total number of cases ascertained through use of supplemental data sources.
Controls were requited either through random dialing or as spouses of cases ascertained for previous studies of cancer, in the French Canadian population (Group 1, n = 50).
The number of cases ascertained by each data source was not included, as cases would be identified by more than one data source.
The areas of the circles in the Venn diagram are proportional to the number of cases ascertained in each dataset.
The vast majority of cases were ascertained within 1 3 months of diagnosis; physician consent to contact patients was generally obtained within 1 month, and approximately 70% of questionnaires were returned within 2 months of mailing.
Furthermore, the number of cases ascertained was also very small.
The proportion of cases ascertained by death certificate only (DCO) was 6.1 %.
