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CIC Surveillance Exam Study Guide Solutions Surveilance - ANSWER-a comprehensive method of measuring outcomes and related processes of care, analyzing the data, and providing information to members of the healthcare team to assist in improving those outcomes. endemic - ANSWER-usual presence of...

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Surveilance - ANSWER✔✔-a comprehensive method of measuring outcomes and related processes of

care, analyzing the data, and providing information to members of the healthcare team to assist in

improving those outcomes.


endemic - ANSWER✔✔-usual presence of a disease or condition in a specific population or geographical

area.


Attack Rate - ANSWER✔✔-an incidence proportion, rather than a true rate, that is used to measure the

frequency of new cases of a disease or condition in a specific population during a limited period.


It is usually used to describe the proportion of the population that develops a disease or condition

during an outbreak.


Baseline - ANSWER✔✔-the number or value used as the basis for comparison


Case - ANSWER✔✔-an instance of a particular disease, injury, or other health condition that meets

selected criteria


Case definition - ANSWER✔✔-a set of uniformly applied criteria for determining whether a person

should be identified as having a particular disease, injury, or other health condition; usually specifies

clinical, laboratory, and other diagnostic criteria.




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Cluster - ANSWER✔✔-a group of cases that occurs closely related in time and place without regard to

whether the number of cases is more than expected


(often the expected number is not known)


Contact tracing or contact investigation - ANSWER✔✔-the practice of identifying and monitoring

individuals who may have had contact with an infectious person as a means of controlling the spread of

a communicable disease


Denominator - ANSWER✔✔-the lower portion of a fraction used to calculate a rate or ratio


Distribution - ANSWER✔✔-frequency and pattern of an event in a population


Epidemic - ANSWER✔✔-the occurrence of more cases of a disease than expected in a given area or

among a specific group of individuals during a specified time period; synonym of outbreak.


Epidemiology - ANSWER✔✔-the study of the distribution and determinates of health conditions or

events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems.


Incidence rate - ANSWER✔✔-measures the occurrence of new cases or events in a specific population

during a given time period.




The numerator is the number of new cases occurring during the defined time period, and the

denominator is the population at risk.




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