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GeoSentinel - Faculty of Medicine

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Provider-based Provider based Sentinel Surveillance<br />

The 3 Functions <strong>of</strong> <strong>GeoSentinel</strong><br />

1. Surveillance – Response<br />

– Alarming sentinel events<br />

2. Surveillance – ongoing trends<br />

3. Analysis <strong>of</strong> morbidity and estimating risk<br />

– Diagnosing the ill-returnee; the clinician<br />

perspective<br />

– Advising the Prospective Traveler; the traveler<br />

perspective<br />

– Defining associations between patient<br />

characteristics and disease

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