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 HDSS uses the VA method to ascertain the cause of death for all deaths that occur within the study area.
The objective review process to determine CSAEs and also their causes, as shown in figure 1B, uses a systematic method to ascertain whether there was clinical evidence to indicate insufficiencies in the BMP 9 13 14 or a definite error.
Logistic regression was used as a multivariate method to ascertain which variables independently predicted CR.
Logistic regression was used as a multivariate method to ascertain whether the UGT1A1 genotype independently predicted toxicities significantly related to this variable in previous univariate analysis.
The spatial-dependent lattice spacing and microstructure of an α-iron plate with two notches was measured during tensile tests using a pulsed neutron transmission method to ascertain changes depending on the load.
Although we used robust methods to ascertain disease outcomes, 22 preferential diagnoses in people known to have chronic kidney disease may have resulted in overestimation of hazard ratios.
A study that used supplementary methods to ascertain persons with diabetes was performed recently in parts of the former county of Vejle and found that clinical characteristics and mortality differed according to the ascertainment methods applied.
Additionally, all faecal samples were examined qualitatively using the modified formol-ether concentration method to ascertain the child's intestinal parasites infection status.
