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Epidemiology
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... The provisional nature of the case definition suggests that it would be important for a broad set of symptom prevalences to be detected to allow Tremble construction of a variety of definitions. Such descriptive studies could be started we renew of the Health ~ternew and NHANES surveys conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics;.
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... Epidemiology has an important role to play in supporting methods evaluation and development for test mstn~ments used ~ clinical studies as well. Determmation of normal ranges for new test modalities, establishing the sensitive and specificity of screens and biomarkers, and the construction of survey instruments are examples where epidemiologic input Is important and we recommend the inclusion of such expertise In these areas.
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