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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"prospective monitoring"”.
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Prospective Spatio-Temporal Surveillance Methods for the Detection of Disease Clusters
… is often useful to monitor disease occurrences prospectively to determine the location and time when clusters of disease are forming. This aids in the prevention of illness and injury of the public and is the reason spatio-temporal disease surveillance methods are implemented. Care must be taken …
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Univariate and Multivariate Surveillance Methods for Detecting Increases in Incidence Rates
… contains the result of an investigation of prospective monitoring techniques in two distinct surveillance situations. In the first situation, the observations are assumed to be the results of independent Bernoulli trials. Some have suggested adapting the scan statistic to monitor such rates …
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Applications of Control Charts in Medicine and Epidemiology
… considered. The second application area involves monitoring clinical outcomes, which requires accounting for the fact that each patient has a different risk of death prior to undergoing a health care procedure. We propose a risk-adjusted survival time CUSUM chart (RAST CUSUM) for monitoring …
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The impact of hospital surveillance programmes on the incidence of adverse drug reaction reporting in a South African teaching hospital
… or observational study, method, or monitoring strategy that is applied to obtain information on drug experience (primarily adverse) after a drug has been approved for clinical use. One of the major problems in post-marketing surveillance studies is the lack or under-reporting of drug …
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NEUROBIOLOGIA DEL SUICIDIO NEL DISTURBO DEPRESSIVO MAGGIORE: STUDIO MORFOLOGICO POST-MORTEM PER L¿INDAGINE DEL NETWORK GLIALE E VASCOLARE, CON ANALISI TOSSICOLOGICHE PER LA VALUTAZIONE DELL¿ADERENZA ALLA TERAPIA PSICHIATRICA
… adherence is a key factor in suicide prevention, prospective monitoring of postmortem drug levels, along with synergistic collaboration between clinicians and forensic pathologists, could improve the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions and support the development of more targeted suicide …
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Treatment of arthritis with tumour necrosis factor antagonists. Clinical, immunological and biochemical aspects
… protocol with central data handling for the prospective monitoring treatment efficacy and tolerability of new treatments in clinical practice, (ii) whether serum levels of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) change during treatment with TNF antagonists in a way that corroborates a …
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Patterns and predictors of falls and their consequences in extreme old age
… strength. Data collection also included a year’s prospective monitoring of falls using a combination of weekly calendars and telephone follow-up, with reports from participants themselves and proxy informants. $\textbf{KEY FINDINGS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS}$ The study’s description of a …