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Case-control ascertainment
6. Gale T, Ja W, Welty T. Differences in detection of alcohol use in a prenatal population (on a Northern Plains Indian Reservation) using various methods of ascertainment.
This finding is very similar to a laboratory-based survey conducted in the mid-1980s in Canada where 52% of the cases of cryptosporidiosis had traveled to Mexico [ 54 ] . There is, however, a possibility that ascertainment bias could be the reason that foreign travel was found to be a significant risk factor in our study.
The nearly complete ascertainment of genes in the human genome should make expression-profiling studies of human tissues particularly powerful.
In the clinical setting asking patients about their medication use is the most practical means of ascertainment, but it is prone to inaccuracy [ 10 11 ] . Strategies to increase the accuracy of screening for nonadherence such as considering as nonadherent all those who do not respond to therapy can augment sensitivity.