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Methodology for Establishing a Community-Wide Life Laboratory for Capturing Unobtrusive and Continuous Remote Activity and Health Data
Published on: July 27, 2018
Designing surveillance for noninfectious outcomes of medical care
R M Massanari1, K Wilkerson, S Swartzendruber
1Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
Abstract:
We present basic information that a hospital epidemiologist needs when designing a surveillance system for noninfectious adverse outcomes of care. Specific topics reflect key characteristics of such a surveillance system: the purpose, rationale, priorities, definitions, data collection tools, data collection, analysis and reporting, and validation.
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