Canadian forces evaluation of the EPINATO Health Surveillance System in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Canadian Forces (CF) adopted the EPINATO surveillance system in 1996 to monitor disease and injury morbidity in deployed settings. The Directorate of Force Health Protection, CF Health Services Group initiated an evaluation of EPINATO in Task Force Bosnia-Herzegovina in August 2003. Two methods...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 171; no. 10; pp. 955 - 962 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2006
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