Epidemiology The identification and monitoring of HIV-infected persons through a regional or national database. SeeHIV reporting. McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a lin...
Not every topic admits a precise definition but ours does:Epidemiologic surveillance is the collection, transfer, analysis, and interpretation of information related to cases of diseases, which is done systematically and routinely.doi:10.1007/978-0-387-93835-6_8Ralf Reintjes...
The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program is an authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and mortality in the United States. SEER collects and publishes cancer data from a set of 17 population-based regional ...
1993 Revised Classification System for HIV Infection and Expanded Surveillance Case Definition for AIDS Among Adolescents and Adults CDC has revised the classification system for HIV infection to emphasize the clinical importance of the CD4+ T-lymphocyte count in the categorization of HI... KG Castro...
The article presents an outline of development of epidemiological surveillance in history and basic characteristics of principal types of surveillance being used in contemporary epidemiology. The role of disease definition and classification of diseases is stressed. The main features of the surveillance syst...
However, as society and technologies have developed and improved, the definition of surveillance has expanded to include information gathering on everyone, not just those suspected of wrong-doing. Surveillance has become invisible, commonplace, and internalized, resulting in a surveillance lifestyle. ...
In Book CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of healthcare-associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting (Editor ... Richards,Chesley - 《Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology》 被引量: 58发表: 2009年 Systematic review: malfunction of totally implantable...
Evaluation of the surveillance definition of AIDS in Africa is complicated by the lack of an accepted standard for comparison. Most studies in the field have used HIV serology as the standard while others have employed the CDC definition for AIDS giving the evaluations a certain relativity. This ...
A uniform case definition and a minimum set of variables for reporting on each case have been agreed which, when collated on a national basis, will allow comparison of the epidemiology of tuberculosis in different European countries. The Working Group recommends that the case definition includes "...
in the Caribbean. To investigate this, we used travel surveillance and genomic epidemiology to reconstruct outbreak dynamics, DENV serotype turnover, and patterns of spread within the region from 2009-2022. We uncovered two recent DENV-3 introductions from Asia, one of which resulted in a large ...