Clinical surveillance

Under Clinical Surveillance and clinical monitoring, the systematic and continuous monitoring of diseases or deaths is understood. The word comes from the French term monitoring and then came about the American language again in the German language, especially in the medical field.

Surveillance is used particularly in infectious diseases epidemiologists. Doctors at the Robert Koch Institute observe numerous infectious diseases.

One specific area is the hospital surveillance, in which certain resistant pathogens detected on the basis of § 23 of the Infection Protection Act in the individual clinics, will be monitored and evaluated. However, the detection of hospital-acquired infections by the hygiene team at the clinics is part of the hospital surveillance.

Surveillance means that first diseases must be identified and recorded. In a second step, the data obtained are evaluated and finally, to consider what measures to limit or prevent an infectious disease can be made. In infectious diseases, which are not regularly carried out by the doctors microbiological investigations such as influenza, is part of the Surveillance, even the construction of a research network, as it is realized in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Influenza.

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Infection Protection Act

• Bales, Baumann comment to Infektionsschutzgesetz ISBN 3-17-017613-7