Disease Notification
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Voluntary and mandatory surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) bacteraemia in England.

30 Aug 2009 Voluntary laboratory reporting of communicable disease, including bacteraemia, has been the mainstay of surveillance in England for >30 years. The impact of introducing a parallel mandatory reporting process for surveillance of Staphylococcus aureus ... Read more...

Surveillance, recognition, and reporting of Tsutsugamushi disease (scrub typhus) and Japanese spotted fever by general practice clinics in Miyazaki Prefecture, determined by questionnaire survey in 2007.

16 Aug 2009 In June 2007, a questionnaire survey related to the surveillance, recognition, and reporting of Tsutsugamushi disease (TD) and Japanese spotted fever (JSF)--diseases considered endemic in Miyazaki Prefecture--was distributed to general practice ... Read more...

Control of pertussis--lessons learnt from a 10-year surveillance programme in Sweden.

9 Aug 2009 Sweden was the only country in the world without any general pertussis vaccination when acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines were introduced. Since 1996 aP vaccines are given at the ages of 3, 5 and 12 months, with a 99% coverage, and until 2007 ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Disease Notification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Case definition of the Robert Koch Institute for the new MRSA mandatory notification according to decree in compliance with mandatory notification in section IfSG regarding the epidemiologic status of 26 May 2009. MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus) in blood culture and cerebrospinal fluid] 29 Sep 2009
• [Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in nursing homes] 22 Sep 2009
• [Food poisonings are increasing. Dangerous grilled meat (interview by Dr. Judith Neumaier)] Sep 2009
• Voluntary and mandatory surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) bacteraemia in England. 30 Aug 2009
• Commentary: Beyond historical precedent. 30 Aug 2009
• Surveillance, recognition, and reporting of Tsutsugamushi disease (scrub typhus) and Japanese spotted fever by general practice clinics in Miyazaki Prefecture, determined by questionnaire survey in 2007. 16 Aug 2009
• Control of pertussis--lessons learnt from a 10-year surveillance programme in Sweden. 9 Aug 2009
• How to maintain surveillance for novel influenza A H1N1 when there are too many cases to count. 9 Aug 2009
• Uses of tuberculosis mortality surveillance to identify programme errors and improve database reporting. 30 Jul 2009
• Use of surveillance data for prevention of healthcare-associated infection: risk adjustment and reporting dilemmas. 30 Jul 2009
• Public health management of perinatal hepatitis B virus. 29 Jun 2009
• Under-reporting of compensable mesothelioma in Alberta. 29 Jun 2009
• Perinatal hepatitis B prevention. 29 Jun 2009
• [Climate changes and emerging diseases. What new infectious diseases and health problem can be expected?] 29 Jun 2009
• Missed and delayed syphilis treatment and partner elicitation: a comparison between STD clinic and non-STD clinic patients. 29 Jun 2009
• Comparison of national malaria surveillance system with the national notifiable diseases surveillance system in the United States. 29 Jun 2009
• Modelling based on Australian HIV notifications data suggests homosexual age mixing is primarily assortative. 29 Jun 2009
• The fight against rabies in Africa: From recognition to action. 24 Jun 2009
• Now available: German annual epidemiological report on notifiable diseases 2008. 23 Jun 2009
• Reporting healthcare associated infections should be mandatory, says audit office. 10 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Disease Notification'

Definition: Notification or reporting by a physician or other health care provider of the occurrence of specified contagious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV infections to designated public health agencies. The United States system of reporting notifiable diseases evolved from the Quarantine Act of 1878, which authorized the US Public Health Service to collect morbidity data on cholera, smallpox, and yellow fever; each state in the US has its own list of notifiable diseases and depends largely on reporting by the individual health care provider. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)

Descriptor UI: D018563

Alternative terms: Disease Notification; Infectious Disease Reporting; Disease Reporting, Infectious; Disease Reportings, Infectious; Infectious Disease Reportings; Reporting, Infectious Disease; Reportings, Infectious Disease; Notification, Disease; Disease Notifications; Notifications, Disease; Exposure Notification; Exposure Notifications; Notification, Exposure; Notifications, Exposure;

Related Mesh Headings: Mandatory Reporting;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; statistics & numerical data; standards;

Tree Number: E05.318.362; N06.850.520.373; N06.850.780.200.262;

History Note: 95

Technical Notes: for reporting occur of contagious dis: do not confuse with MANDATORY REPORTING, reporting of "suspected incidence of abuse & neglect"; IM GEN only; NIM with specific dis IM; DF: DIS NOTIF