Sentence examples for validation of cases from inspiring English sources

Blindness is guaranteed during linkage and validation of cases.

This cross validation of cases was used to ensure complete ascertainment and facilitate accuracy regarding the epidemiology of major congenital heart disease in Leicestershire.

Background noise may be the source of false positives, which will require the validation of cases, within patients detected by the automated clinical decision support system, by infection control practitioners before alerting health care providers.

The analysis of narratives represents an actual added value of our study because the manual validation of cases increases the sensitivity of the search without affecting the overall performance (manual codification of narratives is performed for all events recorded in the Italian database, thus, no major distortions are likely to occur).

Few studies (N = 45), however, reported validation of case-finding algorithms (sensitivity, specificity, positive or negative predictive value).

It is therefore recommended that regular internal validation of case ascertainment, data completeness and data accuracy is performed.

Cases with presumed high specificity were placed at a higher level in the hierarchy, although this study did not permit validation of case definitions.

The strengths of this study include the use of a population based setting, the completeness of case identification, the validation of case diagnosis, the ascertainment of a number of potential confounding factors, and the use of the Group Health pharmacy database to obtain comparable data on antihypertensive therapy in cases and controls.

The validation of positive cases without validation of negative cases is a classical situation in such population surveillance systems.

Only these SNPs were tested in a second (validation) cohort of cases and controls (run 2) and using univariate analysis from the two runs independently to select the SNPs based on replication.

Validation study of cases of AMI identified from general practitioner records and hospital discharge diagnoses using free text and codes from the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC), International Classification of Diseases 9th revision-clinical modification (ICD9-CM) and ICD-10th revision (ICD-10).