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Data standards are documented agreements on representation, format, definition, structuring, tagging, transmission, manipulation, use, and management of data.

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Criteria used to categorise output for decision making at any stage of the surveillance process

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same as syndromic surveillance

refer to groups of samples expected to be more similar than random e.g. samples from pigs from same herd or carcasses from same abbatoir

Provides well-defined guarantees for fitness, accuracy, and consistency for any of various kinds of user input into an application or automated system. Data validation checks...

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the first case or instance of a patient coming to the attention of health authorities.

Referring to an epidemic limited to localized increase in the incidence of a disease, e.g., in a village, town, or closed institution.

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A communicable disease is an illness due to a specific infectious (biological) agent or its toxic products capable of being directly or indirectly transmitted from...

The planned collection of precise data on the presence of a specific disease or pathogen (hazard) within a defined population