"Sentinel Surveillance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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)
| Descriptor ID |
D018571
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.980.438.700.650 E05.318.650 N05.715.360.300.800.438.625.650 N06.850.520.308.980.438.700.650 N06.850.520.699 N06.850.780.675.650
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| Concept/Terms |
Sentinel Surveillance- Sentinel Surveillance
- Surveillance, Sentinel
- Syndromic Surveillance
- Surveillance, Syndromic
- Biosurveillance Systems
- Biosurveillance System
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sentinel Surveillance" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sentinel Surveillance" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017 | 21 | 47 | 68 |
| 2018 | 23 | 33 | 56 |
| 2019 | 8 | 13 | 21 |
| 2020 | 16 | 11 | 27 |
| 2021 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sentinel Surveillance" by people in Profiles.
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Syndromic surveillance using monthly aggregate health systems information data: methods with application to COVID-19 in Liberia. Int J Epidemiol. 2021 08 30; 50(4):1091-1102.
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Association of Limited In-Person Attendance in US National Football League and National Collegiate Athletic Association Games With County-Level COVID-19 Cases. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 08 02; 4(8):e2119621.
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Slow Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Southern Brazil Over a 6-Month Period: Report on 8 Sequential Statewide Serological Surveys Including 35 611 Participants. Am J Public Health. 2021 08; 111(8):1542-1550.
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Development and validation of an automated emergency department-based syndromic surveillance system to enhance public health surveillance in Yukon: a lower-resourced and remote setting. BMC Public Health. 2021 06 29; 21(1):1247.
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Development and assessment of a hospital admissions-based syndromic surveillance system for COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada: ACES Pandemic Tracker. BMC Public Health. 2021 06 26; 21(1):1230.
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Strategic testing approaches for targeted disease monitoring can be used to inform pandemic decision-making. PLoS Biol. 2021 06; 19(6):e3001307.
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Seroprevalence of human coronaviruses among patients visiting hospital-based sentinel sites in Uganda. BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Jun 16; 21(1):585.
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The African Network for Improved Diagnostics, Epidemiology and Management of common infectious Agents. BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Jun 07; 21(1):539.
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Weekly SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance in Primary Schools, Kindergartens, and Nurseries, Germany, June-November 2020. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 08; 27(8):2192-2196.
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Secondary Use of COVID-19 Symptom Incidence Among Hospital Employees as an Example of Syndromic Surveillance of Hospital Admissions Within 7 Days. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 06 01; 4(6):e2113782.