Sentinel Surveillance

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Accumulation of environmental contaminants in wood duck (Aix sponsa) eggs, with emphasis on polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans. 
  • Assessing the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Burma. 
  • Assessment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease surveillance definitions, North Carolina, 2005. 
  • Chlamydia Prevalence Trends Among Women and Men Entering the National Job Training Program From 1990 Through 2012. 
  • Clinical and economic results from a randomized trial of clinical decision support in a rural health network. 
  • Determinants of outcome in elderly patients with positive sentinel lymph nodes. 
  • Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis: a pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 331,288 participants. 
  • Electronic clinical laboratory test results data tables: lessons from Mini-Sentinel. 
  • Estimating acute human leptospirosis incidence in northern Tanzania using sentinel site and community behavioural surveillance. 
  • Estimating the incidence of typhoid fever and other febrile illnesses in developing countries. 
  • Examining the evidence on the causal effect of HAART on transmission of HIV using the Bradford Hill criteria. 
  • Favorable impact of an infection control network on nosocomial infection rates in community hospitals. 
  • Impact of molecular testing on reported Clostridoides difficile infection rates. 
  • Incidence of human brucellosis in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania in the periods 2007-2008 and 2012-2014. 
  • Infectious complications following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: an automated surveillance system for detecting postprocedure bacteremia. 
  • Invasive fungal infections among organ transplant recipients: results of the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network (TRANSNET). 
  • Is colorectal cancer surveillance cost-effective in patients with ulcerative colitis? 
  • Latex allergy symptoms among health care workers: results from a university health and safety surveillance system. 
  • Local influenza-like illness surveillance at a university health system during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. 
  • Multicountry Distribution and Characterization of Extended-spectrum β-Lactamase-associated Gram-negative Bacteria From Bloodstream Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Non-invasive body temperature measurement of wild chimpanzees using fecal temperature decline. 
  • Overutilization of endoscopic surveillance in nondysplastic Barrett's esophagus: a multicenter study. 
  • Postepizootic persistence of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, Venezuela. 
  • Proactive population health management in the context of a regional health information exchange using standards-based decision support. 
  • Prospective surveillance for invasive fungal infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients, 2001-2006: overview of the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network (TRANSNET) Database. 
  • Rapid assessment of cardiovascular risk among users of smoking cessation drugs within the US Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel program. 
  • Syndromic Surveillance of Respiratory Disease in Free-Living Chimpanzees. 
  • The impact of depth of infection and postdischarge surveillance on rate of surgical-site infections in a network of community hospitals. 
  • The new Sentinel Network--improving the evidence of medical-product safety. 
  • Time of day effects on the incidence of anesthetic adverse events. 
  • Use of sentinel laboratories by clinicians to evaluate potential bioterrorism and emerging infections. 
  • Vision surveillance in the United States: has the time come? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Taekman, Jeffrey Marc, Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia