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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Case ascertainment"”.
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Investigating prevalence and healthcare use of children with complex healthcare needs using data linkage. A study using multi-ethnic data from an ongoing prospective cohort: the Born in Bradford project
… that using primary care data as a source of CA case ascertainment reveals more children with CA than previously thought. These results have significant implications for commissioning healthcare services for children with complex healthcare needs.
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Meat consumption and type 2 diabetes: investigating heterogeneity and potential causal mechanisms
… over 25,000 participants. I worked on improving case ascertainment of T2D as the primary outcome in my analyses. I updated T2D case ascertainment in EPIC-Norfolk by linkage of multiple external data sources, including diabetic eye screening data and clinical biochemistry data. I identified over …
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Psychotic disorders in the Lundby population 1947-1997: Incidence, life-time prevalence and predictors related to personality and behaviour
… through four waves of field study 1947-1997. Case ascertainment included interviews, registers, case notes and key informants. Consensus diagnoses of mental illness were assessed according to a classification adapted to the Lundby Study, but in 1972-1997 also according to the DSM-IV. Mental …
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Systemic sclerosis. Novel molecular and epidemiological features of disease.
… from a population based register with individual case ascertainment, we investigated the epidemiology of SSc in a defined region in southern Sweden comprising one million adult inhabitants. The investigation was performed by using classification criteria presented in 1980 and in 2013 respectively. …
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Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia: An Epidemiological Exploration. Furthering our understanding of the burden of disease in PCD
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is an underrecognized multisystem genetic disorder that is characterized by dysfunctional motile cilia and abnormal mucociliary clearance. In recent years, there have been significant advancements in the understanding of PCD including, but are not limited to, …
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Epidemiological Studies Of Childhood Onset Type 1 Diabetes In Devon And Cornwall
… rate of childhood onset type 1 diabetes was 14.9 cases/100 000/year in this area during the 22-year study period (1975-1996). The case ascertainment was 94.4% for the whole register. A significant increase (2.49% per year) of overall incidence has been observed, mainly due to a significant …
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The incidence of first seizures, new diagnosis of epilepsy and seizure mimics in Cork city and county during the calendar year 2017
… Methods: Using multiple overlapping methods of case ascertainment, all first seizures, new diagnosis of epilepsy, and seizure mimics occuring in the defined geographical area (population 542,868 adults and children) between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2017 were identified. Seizures and …
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Feasibility, validity and utility of HIV testing data as key components of HIV case-based surveillance
Background: HIV case-based surveillance (CBS) is recommended by the World Health Organization and other global agencies, for tracking progress towards achieving the 95-95-95 targets to end the HIV epidemic. CBS involves gathering individual-level data for each person diagnosed and linking these …
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A descriptive retrospective audit of the obstetric conditions which occur in mothers of babies with neonatal encephalopathy at Mowbray Maternity Hospital in 2016
… reasons for the increase include changes in case ascertainment, increased workload with same staff component, or a shift from perinatal hypoxic mortality to morbidity, notably NE. This NE rate compares with other lower resource settings and the previous MMH audit, as does the high proportion …
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The development and course of heart failure after a myocardial infarction
… is highly dependent on the methodology for case-ascertainment and the method used to identify cardiac damage (for instance the sensitivity of the troponin assay used). The development of HF precedes death in most patients who die in the short- or longer-term following an MI. The risk of …