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A National Epidemiological Surveillance System for Thyroid Cancers: Why and How?
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Predictive value and sensitivity of the Program for the Medicalization of Information Systems (PMSI) compared to cancer registries: application to thyroid cancer (1999–2000)
Background: Cancer registries track the number of new cases diagnosed among residents of a specific geographic area but cover only 13% of the French population. Estimating the national...
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Epidemiology in environmental health: a methodological framework with multiple applications that is closely linked to that of health risk assessment
Air pollution, waste incineration, the accident at the AZF plant in Toulouse: what are the health risks? How can we assess, monitor, and evaluate policies designed to reduce them? This...
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Analysis of Methods for Developing Toxicological Reference Values (TRVs): A Guide to Selection?
Currently, when conducting a quantitative health risk assessment, the selection of toxicological reference values (TRVs) relies little on an understanding of the methods used to develop...
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Cancer epidemiology
Accounting for 28% of all deaths, cancer is the second leading cause of death in France. Partly due to the aging population, new cases have increased by 36% over the past 20 years, but...
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Procedures involving a risk of blood exposure for nursing staff: monitoring and trends from 1990 to 1992 in 10 hospitals. New equipment for the safety of healthcare workers
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Methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals in southwestern France: a multicenter study from 1993 (C.C.L.I.N. Sud-Ouest laboratory network)
In February 1993, the C.C.L.I.N. (Regional Center for Infectious Diseases) working group for the Southwest, focusing on the epidemiology of multidrug-resistant bacteria, proposed...
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Prospective study of the incidence of melanoma in the Île-de-France region in 1994
The incidence of melanoma in the Île-de-France region in 1994 was 9.93 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The incidence of invasive melanoma (stages II to V) was 8.62 cases per 100,000...
