sentinel surveillance

Preferred Label : sentinel surveillance;

MeSH definition : 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);

MeSH synonym : surveillance, sentinel; Syndromic Surveillance; Surveillance, Syndromic; Biosurveillance Systems; Biosurveillance System;

CISMeF synonym : surveillances, sentinel; sentinel surveillances; event, sentinel health; events, sentinel health; health events, sentinel; sentinel health events;

MeSH hyponym : sentinel health event; Health Event, Sentinel;

MeSH annotation : an epidemiol method;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndromic surveillance;

Details

Origin ID

D018571;

UMLS CUI

C0242791;

Allowable qualifiers
- veterinary [MeSH Qualifier]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- sentinel network [Q-code]
Ne pas confondre avec
- community networks [MeSH Descriptor]
Record concept(s)
- sentinel health event [MeSH concept]
- sentinel surveillance [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Research Activity [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- sentinel network [Q-code]

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