passive surveillance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpassiveandsurveillance
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passive
adjective
uk/ˈpæs.ɪv/us/ˈpæs.ɪv/
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The passive form of a verb is being used when the grammatical subject is the person or thing that experiences the effect of an action, rather than the person or thing that causes ...
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surveillance
noun[U]
uk/səˈveɪ.ləns/us/sɚˈveɪ.ləns/
the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of a crime that has happened or ...
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(Definition ofpassiveandsurveillancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Firstly,passivesurveillancegenerally identifies disease serious enough to warrant seeking medical attention, and thus underestimates overall morbidity in the community.
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Thus, this study indicates that active surveillance for gastrointestinal pathogens, based on population studies is preferred abovepassivesurveillancebased on clinical reports.
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Therefore, interpretation of our data should take into account these limitations which are consequences of thepassivesurveillancesystem.
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Results frompassivesurveillance, vaccine safety review bodies and autistic case analyses are consistent.
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There are limitations in the use of nationalpassivesurveillancedata.
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Passivesurveillance(health center and hospital based) was conducted for the entire 12 months of the study.
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The severity of disease reported by cases in this study was attributable to the selective effect of thepassivesurveillancesystem by which cases were recruited using laboratory notification.
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Passivesurveillance, via veterinary visits and education campaigns should have some impact, but there is no guarantee that some of the low values for detection time used here are attainable.
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S27 included both active andpassivesurveillanceand detected 107 episodes of falciparum malaria of which 84% were associated with clinical symptoms at the time of treatment.
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The definition of active andpassivesurveillancecategories safeguards epidemiological monitoring and preserves its quality.
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In conjunction with a non reflecting camouflage painting the basic conditions to be undetected forpassivesurveillancesystems are fulfilled when operating for hours over same targets.
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