Surveillance of Infectious Diseases

Surveillance is the backbone of any disease control program. Data must be representative, timely, and consistent. Collection of data must be systematic. Analysis of data should include analysis by time, place, and person. Data sources can be varied, and have a potentially wide scope from death certi...

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Autor principal: Noah, Norman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7660971/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814515-9.00068-0
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description Surveillance is the backbone of any disease control program. Data must be representative, timely, and consistent. Collection of data must be systematic. Analysis of data should include analysis by time, place, and person. Data sources can be varied, and have a potentially wide scope from death certification through clinical illness and from laboratory reports to social factors. The interpretation of surveillance data is a skill which must also take into account the strengths and weaknesses of the source data. Informed feedback is an essential final step to action.
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spelling pubmed-76609712020-11-13 Surveillance of Infectious Diseases Noah, Norman Encyclopedia of Virology Article Surveillance is the backbone of any disease control program. Data must be representative, timely, and consistent. Collection of data must be systematic. Analysis of data should include analysis by time, place, and person. Data sources can be varied, and have a potentially wide scope from death certification through clinical illness and from laboratory reports to social factors. The interpretation of surveillance data is a skill which must also take into account the strengths and weaknesses of the source data. Informed feedback is an essential final step to action. 2021 2021-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7660971/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814515-9.00068-0 Text en Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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