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- 10 common errors in surveillance evaluations
- About
- Acquired resistance
- Additional resources for presenting findings
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Questionnaires
- Advantages and disadvantages of cohort and case control studies
- Advantages and disadvantages of matching
- Aesthetic preferences
- Aide memoire for oral presentations and visual aids
- Analysis, Interpretation, and Dissemination
- Analysis by person characteristics
- Analytical Study Designs
- Antibodies
- Antigen presenting cells (APC)
- Antigens (Ag)
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Applying Epidemiology for the International Health Regulations.
- Apps for epidemiologists
- Ascertainment Bias
- Attack rate
- Bar graphs
- Bias in Questionnaires
- Bioinformatics
- Bloodstream Infection
- Bone and Joint Infection
- Brief history of International Communicable Disease Law
- Burden of HAIs
- CAUTI
- CLABSI
- Capture-recapture
- Cardiovascular System Infection
- Case-cohort study
- Case cross over studies
- Case to case study design
- Catheter-Related Infection
- Causal mechanisms
- Central Nervous System Infection
- Checklist for posters
- Checklist for study protocols
- Choosing a method of data display
- Choosing an appropriate type of map
- Clinical role of the microbiology laboratory
- Cognitive bias
- Cohorting patients and/or staff
- Combining Studies: Meta-Analysis
- Common errors in surveillance data analysis
- Concepts in sampling
- Confidence Intervals
- Confounding in studies
- Contact precautions
- Contact tracing
- Continuing Source
- Control Selection
- Cooperative learning as active learning in adult
- Cost-effectiveness
- Cost-minimisation
- Cost-utility
- Crisis communication
- Criteria for Surveillance
- Criteria for confounding
- Cross-sectional Studies
- Data collection instrument
- Defining a Case
- Definition of an Outbreak Investigation Report
- Density case control studies
- Descriptive Studies
- Detection Bias
- Developing a control definition
- Developing infection control interventions: isolation
- Diagnostic Applications of the Epidemic Curve
- Diagnostic bias
- Diagnostic tests versus screening test
- Disasters and Emergencies
- Disentangling Complex Data
- Distinguishing Different Sources or Modes of Transmission during an outbreak
- Dose Effect
- ECDC PPS - antimicrobial use definition
- ECDC PPS - inclusion/exclusion criteria
- ECDC PPS in European acute care hospitals, definition of HAI
- ECDC PPS in European acute care hospitals protocol
- ECDC Programme on antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections
- ECDC point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in long term care facilities
- ECDC surveillance of Surgical Site Infections
- EU Food Safety Legislation
- EU Legislation for Communicable Diseases Surveillance
- Education and training of staff
- Effect Modification
- Electronic Data Transfer
- Environment as a source of healthcare-associated infections
- Epidemiological/public health role of the clinical microbiology laboratory
- Erythema infectiosa
- Estimating Odds Ratios in the presence of interaction
- European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net)
- European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption Network (ESAC-Net)
- Evaluation of Screening
- Evaluation of the microbicidal activities of hand-rub and hand-wash agents
- Event-based Surveillance
- Experimental Studies
- Expert Advice
- Eye, Ear, Nose or Mouth Infection
- FEM-WIKI
- FEM Users code of conduct
- Five moments for hand hygiene
- Formal Risk Assessment
- Format of closed questions
- Frequency polygons
- Frequent Problems with writing an Outbreak Investigation Report
- Gastrointestinal System Infections
- Glossary
- Gloves and hand hygiene
- HFMD
- Hand hygiene before invasive procedures
- Hand hygiene education and promotion
- Hand hygiene for patients and visitors
- Hand hygiene methods
- Health Informatics Standards - Health Information Systems and Processes
- Health Informatics Standards - Standard Content
- Health advocacy
- Health care settings
- Health education
- Health literacy
- Healthcare-Associated Infections Network (HAI-Net)
- Helminthic mechanisms of immune evasion
- Herd immunity
- Histograms
- Hospital cleaning and decontamination
- Host tracing
- Hygiene and Sanitation
- Identifying Multiple Possible Outbreak Sources
- Immunization of health care workers
- Impact numbers
- Incidence rate
- Incubation period, Latent period and Generation time
- Indications for hand hygiene
- Interaction
- Interpreting Data
- Interpreting model coefficients
- Interviewer Bias
- Isolation of patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)
- Key definitions in infectious diseases epidemiology
- Laboratory Support
- Line graphs
- Linear models
- Lobbying
- Lower Respiratory Tract Infection other than pneumonia
- Maps
- Measles
- Measures of Accuracy in Screening
- Measures of association
- Measures of disease impact - Further reading
- Measures of effect in various study designs
- Measures of impact among the exposed
- Measures of impact in the population
- Measuring incidence rates
- Measuring protection
- Measuring risk
- Measuring the Quality of Healthcare
- Mechanism of infectious disease
- Mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance
- Methods for assessing environmental cleanliness
- Methods for setting thresholds in time series analysis
- Microbial flora of the hands
- Microbial typing
- Misinformation and False Evidence
- Model building strategies
- Molecular epidemiology
- Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO)
- Nails, rings, watches, bracelets
- Non-response bias
- Objectives of Surveillance
- Online Reporting
- Other types of data display
- Outbreak communication
- Outbreak investigations: 10 steps, 10 pitfalls
- Outbreak steps : additional points
- Parallel versus Serial testing
- Person to Person
- Pie charts
- Pilot testing
- Piloting Questionnaires
- Pneumonia
- Point Source
- Policy and Real World Evidence
- Political Interests and Populism
- Possible Terrorist / Deliberate Event
- Practical Aspects of Specimen Collection and Shipment
- Pre-emptive isolation
- Presenting Data
- Presenting Statistics
- Prevalence
- Preventing bias
- Primary prevention
- Principles of Screening
- Principles of matching
- Prisons
- Privacy policy
- Probability
- Product accessibility and cost
- Public health response (informing control)
- Quality, Governance, and Operating Procedures
- Quality checking
- Quantifying disease burden
- Questionnaire Layout and Coding
- Recall Bias
- Receiver operating curve
- Reference group for cohort studies
- Referral bias
- Relation between risk and incidence rate
- Reporting Bias
- Reprocessing of flexible endoscopes
- Reproductive Tract Infections
- Reservoir for infectious agents
- Residual Confounding
- Response Bias
- Restriction
- Risk communication
- Risks and Rates
- Risks and rates
- Roseola
- Rubella
- SMART definitions
- SOCO (single over-riding communications objective)
- SSI
- Scarlatina
- Schools
- Scientific Uncertainty
- Scientific paper review form
- Secondary prevention
- Selection and evaluation for specific products
- Selection bias and cohort studies
- Semmelweis
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Sensitivity and Specificity of a case definition
- Seven Golden Rules to Design Questions
- Significant probability to be different from the expected
- Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
- Skin care
- Smoothing techniques
- Social marketing
- Software for epidemiologists
- Some key recitals under 1082
- Source of infection
- Sources and Types of Data
- Sources and Types of Surveillance Data
- Spatial Analysis (Geographical Information Systems)
- Special Considerations in Control Selection
- Specific Neonatal Case definitions
- Stage 0: Preparation for rapid risk assessment
- Stage 1: Collecting event information
- Stage 2: Systematically collecting information
- Stage 3: Extracting relevant evidence
- Stage 4: Appraising evidence
- Stage 5; Estimating the risk
- Standard precautions
- Standardization of rates
- Statistical Methods for Cluster Investigation
- Structure of an Outbreak Investigation Report
- Surgical Site Infection
- Surveillance - Opportunities and Challenges
- Surveillance System Design and Operation
- Surveillance for MV Patients in the ICU
- Surveillance methodologies for healthcare associated infections
- Surveillance of Clostridium difficile infections
- Surveillance of HAIs in intensive care units
- Surveillance or Research
- Survival bias
- Systemic Infections
- Table format and Analysis
- Table measuring risk, rate and odds ratio
- Tables
- Ten Steps to Design a Questionnaire
- Tertiary prevention
- Test Precision
- Test Reproducibility
- Test reliability
- The Components of Surveillance
- The European Surveillance System (TESSy)
- The Mantel Haenszel Method
- The Role of Surveillance
- The idea of Statistical Inference
- The logistic model
- The outbreak management team
- Threshold setting
- To Public and the Media
- Traditional case-control studies
- Transmission routes
- Types of Cluster
- Types of Microorganisms
- Types of Questionnaires
- Types of Surveillance System (Active vs Passive)
- Types of variables and line listing
- Unmasking Outbreak Source through Segmentation
- Urinary Tract Infection
- Use of Epidemic Curves for characterising Outbreak Sources
- Use of computers
- Uses of Surveillance Data
- VAP
- Validated questionnaires
- Validity and accuracy
- Varicella
- Various Levels of Case Definition
- Vector Borne
- Viewpoints for Causality (Bradford Hill)
- Web-crawling Applications
- Weblinks for epidemiologists
- What determines our susceptibility to infections?
- Which indicator to map?
- Writing an Outbreak Investigation Report
- Writing for Stakeholders
- Writing style of an Outbreak Investigation Report
