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Can Linked Electronic Medical Record and Administrative Data Help Us Identify Those Living With Frailty?

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Introduction Frailty is a combination of factors that increase vulnerability to functional decline, dependence and/or death. Frailty cannot easily be defined by comorbidities or medical treatment alone.
Sabrina Wong, Alan Katz, Tyler Williamson, Sandra Peterson, Carole Taylor, Kim McGrail   +5 more
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of BG-Sentinel and CDC light traps in assessing the abundance, richness, and community composition of mosquitoes in rural and natural areas

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Background Vector-borne diseases are a major burden to public health. Controlling mosquitoes is considered the most effective way to prevent vector-borne disease transmission.
André B. B. Wilke, Chalmers Vasquez, Augusto Carvajal, Maday Moreno, William D. Petrie, John C. Beier   +5 more
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Sentinel Surveillance: an option for surveillance of infectious intestinal disease

Eurosurveillance, 2007
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Gauci, C., Melillo Fenech, T., Gilles, H., O'Brien, S., Mamo, J., Stabile, I., Calleja, N., Ruggeri, F., Cuschieri, L.   +8 more
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Developing a Primary Care EMR-based Frailty Definition using Machine Learning

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Introduction Frailty is a geriatric syndrome that is predictive of heightened vulnerability for disability, hospitalization, and mortality. Annually an estimated 250,000 frail Canadians die, and this estimate is expected to double in the next 40 years ...
Sylvia Aponte-Hao, Bria Mele, Dave Jackson, Alan Katz, Charles Leduc, Brendan Lethebe, Sabrina Wong, Tyler Williamson   +7 more
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Tick related diseases in Switzerland, 2008 to 2011

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2012
QUESTION UNDER STUDY: To determine the incidence and determinants of tick related diseases in Switzerland, such as tick bites and Lyme borreliosis in primary care and tick borne encephalitis.
Ekkehardt Altpeter, Hanspeter Zimmermann, Jürgen Oberreich, Olivier Péter, Charles Dvořák, Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network   +5 more
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Evaluation of the design of the influenza-like illness sentinel surveillance system in Brazil [PDF]

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
: The influenza-like illness (ILI) sentinel surveillance operates in Brazil to identify respiratory viruses of public health relevance circulating in the country and was first implemented in 2000. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced the importance
Laís Picinini Freitas, Cláudia Torres Codeço, Leonardo Soares Bastos, Daniel Antunes Maciel Villela, Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, Antonio Guilherme Pacheco, Flavio Codeço Coelho, Raquel Martins Lana, Luiz Max Fagundes de Carvalho, Roberta Pereira Niquini, Walquiria Aparecida Ferreira de Almeida, Daiana Araújo da Silva, Felipe Cotrim de Carvalho, Marcelo Ferreira da Costa Gomes   +13 more
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The Sentiworld project: global mapping of sentinel surveillance networks in general practice

BMC Primary Care, 2022
Background Sentinel networks composed of general practitioners (GPs) represent a powerful tool for epidemiologic surveillance and ad-hoc studies. Globalization necesitates greater international cooperation among sentinel networks.
Andrew Meci, Florence Du Breuil, Ana Vilcu, Thibaud Pitel, Caroline Guerrisi, Quentin Robard, Clément Turbelin, Thomas Hanslik, Louise Rossignol, Cécile Souty, Thierry Blanchon   +10 more
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Optimizing sentinel surveillance in temporal network epidemiology [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2017
AbstractTo help health policy makers gain response time to mitigate infectious disease threats, it is essential to have an efficient epidemic surveillance. One common method of disease surveillance is to carefully select nodes (sentinels, or sensors) in the network to report outbreaks.
Yuan Bai, Bo Yang, Lijuan Lin, Jose L. Herrera, Zhanwei Du, Petter Holme   +5 more
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PAN-RESPIRATORY DISEASE SURVEILLANCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
The Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) was established by WHO in 1952 to conduct surveillance for influenza to inform strain selection for seasonal vaccines and to monitor for influenza pandemics.
Bill Davis
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Routine and sentinel surveillance methods

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2021
Surveillance, whether active or passive, is a dynamic process. It is fundamental to public health decision-making and subsequent action. Choice of diseases for surveillance, development of methods, ongoing systematic evaluation and dissemination to those who need to know, are each components which require expert, knowledgeable attention.
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