The use of hospital-based nurses for the surveillance of potential disease outbreaks

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 22-27

  Durrheim, David N ^a,b   Harris, Bernice N ^a   Speare, Rick ^b   Billinghurst, Kelvin ^a  

^a Mpumalanga Department of Health and Social Services   (South Africa)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cholera, epidemiology; Disease notification, methods; Disease outbreaks, prevention and control; Disease, syndrome; Meningococcal infections, epidemiology; Nursing staff, hospital; Paralysis, epidemiology; Sentinel surveillance; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; COMPUTER NETWORK; DYSENTERY; EPIDEMIC; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEASLES; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NURSING STAFF; PLAGUE; POLIOMYELITIS; SOUTH AFRICA; YELLOW FEVER;

CHOLERA; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NURSING AUDIT; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; POLIOMYELITIS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0035125264     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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