passive surveillance

collocation in English

meanings of passiveand surveillance

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passive
adjective
uk /ˈpæs.ɪv/ us /ˈpæs.ɪv/
languagespecialized
The passive form of a verb is being used when the grammatical subject is the person or thing that experiences the effect of an action, rather than the person or thing that causes ...
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surveillance
noun[U]
uk /səˈveɪ.ləns/ us /sɚˈveɪ.ləns/
the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of a crime that has happened or ...
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Examples of passive surveillance

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Firstly, passivesurveillance generally identifies disease serious enough to warrant seeking medical attention, and thus underestimates overall morbidity in the community.
Thus, this study indicates that active surveillance for gastrointestinal pathogens, based on population studies is preferred above passivesurveillance based on clinical reports.
Therefore, interpretation of our data should take into account these limitations which are consequences of the passivesurveillance system.
Results from passivesurveillance, vaccine safety review bodies and autistic case analyses are consistent.
There are limitations in the use of national passivesurveillance data.
Passivesurveillance (health center and hospital based) was conducted for the entire 12 months of the study.
The severity of disease reported by cases in this study was attributable to the selective effect of the passivesurveillance system by which cases were recruited using laboratory notification.
Passivesurveillance, via veterinary visits and education campaigns should have some impact, but there is no guarantee that some of the low values for detection time used here are attainable.
S27 included both active and passivesurveillance and detected 107 episodes of falciparum malaria of which 84% were associated with clinical symptoms at the time of treatment.
The definition of active and passivesurveillance categories safeguards epidemiological monitoring and preserves its quality.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In conjunction with a non reflecting camouflage painting the basic conditions to be undetected for passivesurveillance systems are fulfilled when operating for hours over same targets.
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