Sentinel Surveillance
Monitoring of rate of occurrence of specific conditions to assess the stability or change in health levels of a population. It is also the study of disease rates in a specific cohort such as in a geographic area or population subgroup to estimate trends in a larger population. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
Year introduced: 1995
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Tree Number(s): E05.318.308.980.438.700.650, E05.318.650, N05.715.360.300.800.438.625.650, N06.230.100.035.250.500, N06.850.520.308.980.438.700.650, N06.850.520.699, N06.850.780.200.625.500, N06.850.780.675.650
MeSH Unique ID: D018571
Entry Terms:
- Surveillance, Sentinel
- Biosurveillance Systems
- Biosurveillance System
- Syndromic Surveillance
- Surveillance, Syndromic
- Sentinel Health Event
- Health Event, Sentinel
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