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Population-based asbestosis surveillance in British Columbia

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2009
Objectives:To investigate the use of multiple health data sources for population-based asbestosis surveillance in British Columbia, Canada.Methods:Provincial health insurance registration records, workers’ compensation records, hospitalisation records, and outpatient medical service records were linked using individual-specific study identifiers.
W Q, Gan, P A, Demers, C B, McLeod, M, Koehoorn   +3 more
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Population-Based Surveillance for Acute Liver Failure

The American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2007
Most U.S. studies of acute liver failure (ALF) patients have been conducted at tertiary care liver transplantation centers. The aim of this study was to conduct population-based surveillance for ALF.We conducted population-based surveillance for ALF within the 8 counties comprising Metropolitan Atlanta between November 2000 and October 2004.
William A, Bower, Matthew, Johns, Harold S, Margolis, Ian T, Williams, Beth P, Bell   +4 more
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Cytogenetic Surveillance of Industrial Populations

1976
It is difficult to demonstrate the precise etiology of chromosomal damage in man because of the great variety and environmental ubiquity of the agents—drugs, chemicals, viruses, and physical forces—known or suspected to cause chromosomal breakage and consequent aberrations. While the researcher has findings available from a vast array of tests, ranging
D. Jack Kilian, Dante Picciano
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The Analysis of Crow Population Dynamics as a Surveillance Tool

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2009
West Nile virus (WNV) infection, a zoonotic disease for which birds act as a reservoir, first appeared in North America in August 1999. It was first reported in Quebec in 2002. The Quebec surveillance system for WNV has several components, including the surveillance of mortality in corvid populations, which includes the American crow (Corvus ...
A, Ludwig, M, Bigras-Poulin, P, Michel
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POPULATION-BASED SURVEILLANCE OF TYPHOID FEVER IN EGYPT

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2006
Credible measures of disease incidence are necessary to guide typhoid fever control efforts. In Egypt, incidence estimates have been derived from hospital-based syndromic surveillance, which may not represent the population with typhoid fever. To determine the population-based incidence of typhoid fever in Fayoum Governorate (pop.
Padmini, Srikantiah, Fouad Y, Girgis, Stephen P, Luby, Gregory, Jennings, Momtaz Omar, Wasfy, John A, Crump, Robert M, Hoekstra, Mahmoud, Anwer, Frank J, Mahoney   +8 more
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Designing Surveillance at a Population Level

American Journal of Public Health, 2023
Stefano, Tancredi, Arnaud, Chiolero
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Acyclovir Use and its Surveillance in a General Population

DICP, 1990
This study examined the extent and patterns of use of acyclovir in a health maintenance organization (HMO) population. The development and implementation of a system to survey acyclovir users for possible acute adverse effects is also described.
Abraham G. Hartzema, Miquel S. Porta, Hugh H. Tilson, Richard E. Johnson, John P. Mullooly, Barbara G. Valanis, Elizabeth B. Andrews, Hugh H. Tilson   +7 more
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Case Definitions for Use in Population‐Based Surveillance of Periodontitis

Journal of Periodontology, 2007
Many definitions of periodontitis have been used in the literature for population‐based studies, but there is no accepted standard. In early epidemiologic studies, the two major periodontal diseases, gingivitis and periodontitis, were combined and considered to be a continuum. National United States surveys were conducted in 1960 to 1962, 1971 to 1974,
Roy C, Page, Paul I, Eke
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Injury Surveillance in Special Populations

2011
The rapid technological advancements during the late 1980s and early 1990s provided public health professionals and researchers with newfound capabilities to conduct public health surveillance, including dramatic advancements in injury surveillance. Continued technological advancements have similarly increased the ability to conduct injury surveillance
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GESTATIONAL EXPOSURE TO RUBELLA VACCINEES.A POPULATION SURVEILLANCE STUDY

Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1975
Over a two-year period an attempt was made to identify instances of transmission of rubella vaccine virus from rubella vaccinees to pregnant women in Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee. Approximately 24,000 children were immunized in a mass campaign at the outset of the study.
WILLIAM F. FLEET, WILLIAM VAUGHN, LEWIS B. LEFKOWITZ, WILLIAM SCHAFFNER, CHARLES F. FEDERSPIEL, JULIETTE THOMPSON, DAVID T. KARZON   +6 more
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