Surveillance data in CDI
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disease surveillance, surveillance schemesAbstract
The Communicable Diseases Surveillance section of Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI) includes reports from a number of national surveillance schemes. These schemes are conducted to monitor the occurrence of communicable diseases in Australia, to detect trends, to highlight needs for further investigation and to implement or manage control measures. This article describes the surveillance schemes which are routinely reported on in CDI.
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Last JM. A dictionary of epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Hall R, Notifiable diseases surveillance, 1917 to 1991. Commun Dis Intell 1993;226-236.
National Health and Medical Research Council. Surveillance Case Definitions. Canberra: NHMRC, 1994.
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