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Sentinel Surveillance

"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.

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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)


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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.
Bar chart showing 16 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2014
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