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Hidden in Plain Sight: Epidemiological Signals in Routine Laboratory Data

2026-02-06 public and global health Title + abstract only
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Public health monitoring traditionally relies on active reporting from diverse data sources, including clinical and administrative data, disease registries, and population-based surveys. Yet these surveillance methods often face challenges such as incomplete reporting, time lags, and variable population coverage. Meanwhile, diagnostic laboratories routinely generate vast volumes of operational data that are currently untapped for public health monitoring. As these data are not collected for scie...

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