Sentinel Sites
Application of WHO’s guideline for the selection of sentinel sites for hospital based influenza surveillance in Indonesia
... tinel sites. These approaches may not be suited or feasible for sentinel surveillance systems where the objective is to obtain high-quality patient level data to monitor re- gional clinical, epidemiological ...
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Study protocol on establishment of sentinel sites network for contraceptive and abortion trends, needs and utilization of services in Zika virus affected countries
... surveillance sentinel sites will help to strengthen health systems at regional and subregional levels that are more adaptable and capable of providing reproductive healthcare services and of responding to ...
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Cocaine treatment admissions at three sentinel sites in South Africa (1997–2006): findings and implications for policy, practice and research
... eight sentinel sites in South Africa who meet bi-annually to provide community-level public health surveillance information about alcohol and other drug (AOD) ...These sites consist of the two port ...
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Baseline prevalence and intensity of schistosomiasis at sentinel sites in Madagascar: Informing a national control strategy
... Monitoring and evaluation of prevalence and intensity of infection are recommended in order to document the impact of treatment, and to improve control pro- grammes when necessary [5]. In line with WHO guide- lines, a ...
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Efficient use of sentinel sites : detection of invasive honeybee pests and diseases in the UK
... Sentinel sites, w here p roblem s can be id entified early or investigated in d etail, form an im portant p art of p lanning for exotic d isease outbreaks in hum ans, livestock and p ...The sentinel ...
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Changes in malaria burden and transmission in sentinel sites after the roll out of long lasting insecticidal nets in Papua New Guinea
... Methods: Before and after the distribution of LLINs, data collection in six purposively selected sentinel sites included clinical surveillance in the local health facility, household surveys and ...
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Therapeutic efficacy of artesunate–amodiaquine and artemether–lumefantrine combinations for uncomplicated malaria in 10 sentinel sites across Ghana: 2015–2017
... 10 sentinel sites for anti- malarial drug efficacy monitoring in Ghana ...The sites were Navrongo War Memorial Hospital (NWMH), Yendi Municipal Hospital (YMH) and Wa regional Hos- pital (WRH), ...
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HPV testing as a triage for borderline or mild dyskaryosis on cervical cytology: results from the Sentinel Sites study
... between sites in HPV-positive ...two sites with the lowest rate of HPV-positive tests classified a higher percentage of all samples taken as borderline or worse than do the other sites, suggesting ...
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Nationwide insecticide resistance status and biting behaviour of malaria vector species in the Democratic Republic of Congo
... Background: Globally, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) accounted for 9% of malaria cases and 10% of malaria deaths in 2015. As part of control efforts, more than 40 million long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) ...
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The impact of an 8 year mass drug administration programme on prevalence, intensity and co infections of soil transmitted helminthiases in Burundi
... mobile clinics to reach the target population. Along this programme, Burundi was already providing mebenda- zole (MBZ) to children under 5 years of age within the Mother and Child Health Week (MCHW) campaigns (twice a ...
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Malaria vector control by indoor residual insecticide spraying on the tropical island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea
... sixteen sentinel sites and An. melas from four sites (Basacato del Oeste, Luba, Punta Europa and ...ten sites (Basacato del Oeste, Batete, Ela Nguema, Musola, Punta Europa, Rebola, Riaba, ...
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Prevalence of malaria parasitaemia in school children from two districts of Ghana earmarked for indoor residual spraying: a cross sectional study
... selected sentinel sites in the areas of operation to deter- mine the prevalence of parasitaemia and anaemia among children in sentinel pre- and primary schools as baseline data before the start of ...
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Spatial and Temporal Variation in Susceptibility Status of Anopheles arabiensis the Malaria Vector to Insecticides in Khartoum State, Sudan
... A total of 6275 adult An. arabiensis reared from larvae collected from the nine sentinel sites were exposed to the aforementioned insecticides (550 - 1900 per insecticide). Of these 2125, 925 and 3175 ...
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Folate Deficiency and Its Impact on NTDs Prevalence in Georgia
... the Sentinel Sites: Sentinel sites selection has been undertaken considering the main characteristics of representativeness (geographical, social, ethnical, urban/rural, religion, ...8 ...
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Sentinel site community surveillance of mortality and nutritional status in southwestern Central African Republic, 2010
... of sites (villages or urban quartiers ...24 sentinel sites from this sampling frame would have yielded a total sample under surveillance of about 10,000 people (in- cluding 1,600 children under 5 ...
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Physician surveillance of influenza
... Hamilton Public Health (HPH) in Ontario approached a small number of primary care practice clinics to act as sentinel sites to provide information on influenza activity. This initial request asked family ...
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Clinical and molecular surveillance of artemisinin resistant falciparum malaria in Myanmar (2009–2013)
... For this prospective cohort study, uncomplicated falcipa- rum malaria patients were recruited according to WHO standardized protocol [6] in 6 sentinel sites in Myanmar from 2009 to 2013 to assess the ...
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Efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Nepal
... selected sentinel sites in Nepal during 2013 to 2014 and met the inclusion criteria that included parasitemia (1000 – 10,000 / μ L of blood), were evaluated until 28 days after ACTs treatment, following a ...
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Detection of sentinel and non-sentinel lymph node micrometastases by complete serial sectioning and immunohistochemical analysis for gastric cancer
... removed from the 35 patients. Of these, 252 lymph nodes were SLNs and the other 776 were non-SLNs. All 252 SLNs were negative for metastases both on intraoperative fro- zen-section examination and permanent section with ...
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Sentinel node biopsy during thoracolaparoscopic esophagectomy for advanced esophageal cancer
... A sentinel node (SN) is defined as the lymph node that receives lymphatic flow directly from the primary tumor, being the first site of metastatic spread ...
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