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Underlying conditions and risk of hospitalisation, ICU admission and mortality among those with COVID-19 in Ireland: A national surveillance study

The Lancet Regional Health. Europe, 2021
Background: To date, over 2 million people worldwide have died with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. To describe the experience in Ireland, this study examined associations between underlying conditions and the ...
Kathleen E. Bennett, Maeve Mullooly, Mark O'Loughlin, Margaret Fitzgerald, Joan O'Donnell, Lois O'Connor, Ajay Oza, John Cuddihy   +7 more
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Evaluating tools to define influenza baseline and threshold values using surveillance data, Egypt, season 2016/17

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2020
Background: Establishing influenza thresholds and transmission intensity can help evaluate seasonal changes in influenza severity and potential pandemics.
Basma AbdElGawad, Tomás Vega, Moustafa El Houssinie, Amira Mohsen, Manal Fahim, Hanaa Abu ElSood, Jean Jabbour, Alaa Eid, Samir Refaey   +8 more
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Epidemiology, Disease Severity and Outcome of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 and Influenza Viruses Coinfection Seen at Egypt Integrated Acute Respiratory Infections Surveillance, 2020–2022

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2022
Background. Cocirculation of influenza (Flu) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (SARS-CoV-2/Flu) represent a public health concern as it may worsen the severity and increase fatality from coronavirus disease 2019.
Manal Fahim, Wael H. Roshdy, Ola Deghedy, Reham Kamel, Amel Naguib, Shymaa Showky, Nancy Elguindy, Mohammad Abdel Fattah, Salma Afifi, Amira Mohsen, Amr Kandeel, Khaled Abdelghaffar   +11 more
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Adapting an integrated acute respiratory infections sentinel surveillance to the COVID-19 pandemic requirements, Egypt, 2020–2022

Public Health in Practice, 2023
Objectives: In Egypt, an integrated surveillance for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) was established in 2016 to identify the causes of ARIs. The surveillance system includes 19 governmental hospitals.
Manal Fahim, Hanaa Abu ElSood, Basma AbdElGawad, Ola Deghedy, Amel Naguib, Wael H. Roshdy, Shymaa Showky, Reham Kamel, Nancy Elguindy, Mohammad Abdel Fattah, Salma Afifi, Amr Kandeel, Khaled Abdelghaffar   +12 more
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Birth, stillbirth and death registration data completeness, quality and utility in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study

Population Health Metrics, 2021
Background Birth registration is a child’s first right. Registration of live births, stillbirths and deaths is foundational for national planning. Completeness of birth registration for live births in low- and middle-income countries is measured through ...
Simon Kasasa, Davis Natukwatsa, Edward Galiwango, Tryphena Nareeba, Collins Gyezaho, Ane Baerent Fisker, Mezgebu Yitayal Mengistu, Francis Dzabeng, M. Moinuddin Haider, Judith Yargawa, Joseph Akuze, Angela Baschieri, Claudia Cappa, Debra Jackson, Joy E. Lawn, Hannah Blencowe, Dan Kajungu, the Every Newborn-INDEPTH Study Collaborative Group   +17 more
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Approaches to canine health surveillance [PDF]

, 2014
Effective canine health surveillance systems can be used to monitor disease in the general population, prioritise disorders for strategic control and focus clinical research, and to evaluate the success of these measures.
Brodbelt, D C, Church, D B, McGreevy, P D, O'Neill, D G, Sydney, Thomson, P C   +5 more
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Increasing the reliability of fully automated surveillance for central line–associated bloodstream infections [PDF]

, 2015
OBJECTIVETo increase reliability of the algorithm used in our fully automated electronic surveillance system by adding rules to better identify bloodstream infections secondary to other hospital-acquired infections.METHODSIntensive care unit (ICU ...
Doherty, Joshua A, Gase, Kathleen A, Goris, Ashleigh J, Leone, Carole L, Snyders, Rachael E, Woeltje, Keith F   +5 more
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Public Health Surveillance of Low-Frequency Populations [PDF]

Annual Review of Public Health, 2004
Public health agencies often require data that address the needs of special populations, such as minority groups. Sources of surveillance data often contain insufficient numbers of subjects to fully inform health agencies. In this review, we address the problems of and potential approaches for situations with insufficient surveillance data. We use the
Elena M, Andresen, Paula H, Diehr, Douglas A, Luke   +2 more
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Comparisons of individual- and area-level socioeconomic status as proxies for individual-level measures: evidence from the Mortality Disparities in American Communities study

Population Health Metrics, 2021
Background Area-level measures are often used to approximate socioeconomic status (SES) when individual-level data are not available. However, no national studies have examined the validity of these measures in approximating individual-level SES. Methods
Jennifer L. Moss, Norman J. Johnson, Mandi Yu, Sean F. Altekruse, Kathleen A. Cronin   +4 more
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Wheat rusts never sleep but neither do sequencers: will pathogenomics transform the way plant diseases are managed? [PDF]

, 2015
Field pathogenomics adds highly informative data to surveillance surveys by enabling rapid evaluation of pathogen variability, population structure and host ...
Derevnina, Lida, Michelmore, Richard W
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