title: Emerging infectious diseases: can we meet the challenge?
abstract: Demonstration of quality health care includes documentation of outcomes of care. Surveillance is a comprehensive method of measuring outcomes and related processes of care, analyzing the data, and providing information to members of the health care team to assist in improving those outcomes. Surveillance is an essential component of effective clinical programs designed to reduce the frequency of adverse events such as infection or injury.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fawal
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Steele
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States