We have shown that this method ascertains approximately 90% of incident cancers.[13] Our end points were first primary incident cancers, defined according to the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Result (SEER) criteria, with minor modifications for malignancies of the head and neck, esophagus, pancreas, and prostate, as described previously.[14] [18] Skin cancer was restricted to melanoma only.
The method ascertains that, unlike in more classical approaches, after finding the global minimum and a number of local ones on the way, the algorithm continues the exploration and identifies new local minima.
This method to ascertain diabetic status has been previously validated within the VA (10).
30 The International Centre for Diarrhea Disease Research, Bangladesh, has used this method to ascertain causes of deaths since 1971 31 32 and documented an overall 95% specificity, with a 85% sensitivity for deaths from cancer and up to 85% sensitivity for cardiovascular deaths.
The ICDDR,B has used this method to ascertain causes of deaths since 1971 (Ronsmans et al. 1998) and has documented an overall 95% specificity and 50 80% sensitivity for deaths due to CVD (Alam et al. 2004).
The MSEC correction method ascertained high fidelity of the data analyzed [39], especially for the activity in the frontal regions that is typically distorted or underestimated in traditional eye correction procedures.
One study used a tracking method ascertaining the vital status of a subsample of patients lost to follow-up for correcting the estimation of retention in HIV care prior to ART eligibility.
Using this method, investigators have ascertained that the age of the sediments in Mammoth Cave is more than 2,000,000 years.
The main purpose of this method is to ascertain that all the students have become familiar with shadowing practice at relatively slow speed, and then to gradually adjust them to the moderate and then faster speed on a weekly basis, with the aim to be at a native-like speed at the end of the study period.
Taking into account the aforementioned results, this method mix research ascertained the prevalence and consequence of rape among street females in Bahir-Dar town.
It has, however, been suggested that this method will under ascertain pre-AIDS cancers because some HIV-infected people with cancer will not survive to AIDS (Engels et al, 2002).
