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Monitoring
1. Observe and check the progress or quality of (something) over a period of time; keep
under systematic review.
2. "equipment was installed to monitor air quality"
3. Observe, watch, track, keep an eye on, keep under observation, keep watch on, keep
under surveillance, surveil, record, note,
4. To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting information: monitor the bear
population of a national park; monitored the political views of the people.
5. To test or sample, especially on a regular or ongoing basis: monitored the city's drinking
water for impurities.
6. To keep close watch over; supervise: monitor an examination.
7. The act of listening, carrying out surveillance on, and/or recording the emissions of one's
own or allied forces for the purposes of maintaining and improving procedural standards
and security, or for reference, as applicable.
8. The observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time
9. Close surveillance or supervision, especially of people liable to suffer a sudden and
dangerous deterioration in health. Monitoring involves checks of various parameters such
as pulse rate, temperature, respiration rate, the condition of the pupils, the level of
consciousness, the degree of appreciation of pain and various blood gas concentrations
such as oxygen and carbon dioxide.
Synonyms for monitoring:
Observe, watch, track, keep an eye on, keep under observation, keep watch on, keep under
surveillance, surveil, record, note, oversee
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Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion.
The act of observing or the condition of being observed.
Watching or MONITORING.
a procedure used instead of quarantine to control the spread of infectious disease,
involving close supervision during the incubation period of possible contacts of
individuals exposed to an infectious disease.
A nursing INTERVENTION defined as the purposeful and ongoing acquisition,
interpretation, and synthesis of patient data for clinical decision-making.
The collection, collation, analysis, and dissemination of data.
A type of observational study that involves continuous monitoring of disease occurrence
within a populations
Supervision or observation of a patient or a health condition.
A detailed examination or investigation for the accurate collection of data to record
changes in the character of a population as at a particular time or, in a prospective or
longitudinal surveillance, over a period. Retrospective surveillance might study the
characteristics of a population in which a previous event occurred. The collection of data
may include hospital records, morbidity and mortality statistics, death certificates,
records of immunization, age groups, and various ecological and weather factors for the
period of investigation, particularly if insect vectors are possible influences.
10. The monitoring of diseases that have a known prevalence in a population.
11. Keeping a watch over.
12. Active surveillance--sampling, including necropsy examination, of clinically normal
samples of the population; important in the surveillance of diseases in which subclinical
cases and carriers predominate.
13. Epidemiological surveillance--watching over a population and recording data likely to
have epidemiological significance, usually with the aim of early detection of disease.
Essentially an interventionist exercise compared with monitoring, which is passive.
14. Passive surveillance--examination of only clinically affected cases of specified diseases
in the population.