surveillance programme

A disease surveillance programme has been undertaken in the district.

This patient was the only case of cancer detected by the surveillance programme.

Clearly this is an attempt to impose a national screening and surveillance programme to monitor the health of older people.

One hundred and eighty patients fulfilled the criteria for entry into the surveillance programme.

Because of the high risk of developing a further cancer the patient was entered into the surveillance programme.

All but one of the colorectal cancers in this series occurred in patients outside the surveillance programme.

This, of the nine colitis related cancers diagnosed in this centre during the study period only one was detected by the surveillance programme.

During the 12 year period 1978-1990 nine colonic cancers were found in association with ulcerative colitis, but only one was detected by the surveillance programme.

One hundred and sixty patients entered the surveillance programme and had 739 colonoscopies (4.6 colonoscopy/patient; 709 years follow up).

An AFP Surveillance programme is conducted to increase case yield of poliomyelitis.

It is important to define what is 'success' and what is 'failure'in a surveillance programme to allow critical analysis of the outcome.

In 1978 a prospective surveillance programme was started whereby all patients with longstanding extensive ulcerative colitis were invited to have annual colonoscopy with biopsy.

A workable surveillance programme requires defined entry criteria and a cheap simple test, which is acceptable to the patient and which has a sound discriminatory basis.

The CIA operation interrupted a surveillance programme that was being carried out by Italian authorities into Nasr's alleged participation in Islamist organizations.

Appying these criteria to our results, one of nine colonic cancers that arose in association with ulcerative colitis during the surveillance period was detected by the surveillance programme.

Testing as part of the Food Residues Surveillance Programme detects endosulfan in foods such as lettuce, strawberries and capsicum but are under 0.1 mg/kg.

Since 1998, the Community has a BSE surveillance programme in place which is based on the examination of animals with clinical symptoms suggestive of BSE.

However, the requirements of a surveillance programme differ according to the type of disease since, for seminoma patients, relapses can occur later and blood tests are not as good at indicating relapse.

The workgroup constituted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIOSH defined three indicators of workplace health surveillance programme.

In Europe, many outbreaks have occurred; in 2000 a surveillance programme began in the UK to monitor the incidence of the virus in humans, dead birds, mosquitoes and horses.

We have a comprehensive avian influenza surveillance programme that cover local chicken farms, imported poultry, the wholesale market, retail outlets, wild birds, waterfowls in recreational parks and pet birds in the market.

Those who work in the system - such as the blogger "Winston Smith" - occasionally break ranks and explain that the supervision and surveillance programme is not only extremely un-intensive - it hardly exists at all.

Study after study has revealed that the Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme, which is billed as the "most rigorous alternative available for young offenders", fails to improve those who go through it: more than 90 per cent are convicted of fresh crimes within two years.

I would be very grateful if the Commissioner could explain to us this morning whether there is any surveillance programme to identify whether all 15 Member States are providing expertise to help in advising the small business community on how the millennium bug could affect them.

Hence, in 2011, the Commission will examine the possibility of developing a multiannual market surveillance programme for identifying the long-term measures to be taken and for making the necessary financial resources available, so as to ensure uniformly rigorous checks and consistent action by the Member States.