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Surveillance of blood-spill incidents in French healthcare facilities in 2007. Results
Under the auspices of the Network for the Alert, Investigation, and Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (Raisin) and in collaboration with the Study Group on Healthcare Workers’ Risk...
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Report on Cancer Cases in a University of Rennes Building. Interim Report, April 2009
Following a report by the occupational health service regarding what was perceived as an abnormally high number of cancer cases in a building housing two research laboratories at the...
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Thyroid Diseases in the SU.VI.MAX Cohort: Estimation of Their Incidence and Associated Risk Factors, 1994–2002
Since the 1970s, the incidence of thyroid cancer has been rising in France. The French Institute for Public Health Surveillance was tasked with identifying the risk factors that might...
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Hospital Activity Monitoring System in Aquitaine. 2007 Health Data Report
As part of the Interregional Epidemiology Unit’s mission to monitor the health status of the population, in addition to preparing for responses to public health alerts, the hospital...
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Prevalence Survey of Infections in Nursing Homes. France, June–September 2010
Le Raisin coordinated France's participation in the European prevalence survey of infections and prescriptions for anti-infective drugs in long-term care facilities. The survey was...
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Health monitoring in France in connection with the Chernobyl accident. Updated findings on thyroid cancer and epidemiological studies underway in 2006. Summary of the report
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Departmental estimate of cancer incidence based on long-term illness (ALD) data and cancer registries. Analysis of 24 cancer sites, 2000–2005
The objectives of this study are: (1) to evaluate, for 24 cancer sites, the validity of departmental estimates of cancer incidence based on data from long-term illnesses (ALD) and...
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Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections in France in 2009–2010. Results
Reducing the incidence of surgical site infections (SSIs) is one of the objectives of the national program to combat nosocomial infections (NI). Since 1999, interregional surveillance...
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Infiltrating cutaneous melanoma in France: trends in incidence according to histoprognostic factors over the period 1998–2005
Background: In 2005, the incidence of cutaneous melanoma ranked ninth among all cancers in France. Although it had been rising since 1980, its incidence began to slow after 2000....
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Recent trends in data on chronic conditions: a focus on national surveillance of cancer incidence. 1997–2009
This study presents national trends in the rate of long-term illness (ALD) designations issued by the regional health insurance funds from 1997 to 2009 for 24 cancer sites. These data...
