In some districts, the cluster has helped to reduce duplication of effort, identify gaps, improve coverage, increase joint planning and monitoring of activities, and promote harmonised reporting formats and adherence to national standards.
Commonality in notification duties is not surprising, despite the differing systems of disease notification across states, as the IHR along with WHO and EU surveillance systems require harmonised reporting of pandemic disease notification.
A standardised definition of cancer-related sarcopenia which can be used clinically and in the research setting will harmonise reporting, allowing for direct comparison of results as well as meta-analysis of data.
Based on recent surveys of EQA results presented by some European EQA providers and the request from genetic laboratories for comprehensive reporting guidelines, it was considered that a unifying attempt to harmonise the reporting practice of genetic tests in Europe and neighbouring countries would be welcome.
Attempts to harmonise and improve reporting standards across particular types of study have also been made.
Trend analysis and quality of data are assessed and monitored by the advisory group of 15 multi-disciplinary HIV and AIDS epidemiologists and public health experts, who also guide the hub's effort to harmonise data reporting, and support timely data update to track the epidemic and service coverage.
Elements of improved surveillance include harmonised methods for diagnosing and reporting silicosis, improved access to diagnosis by ex-miners, an information system capable of capturing and integrating data from these activities and the epidemiological capacity to interpret and publish the resulting information.
The reason not to take whole incidence curves into account is that incidence rates in Europe vary considerably, because: 1) case definitions are not yet harmonised across Europe; most countries report cases of ILI, but some report cases of ARI, 2) the denominator calculations vary by country and, 3) consultation rates for ILI and ARI vary among countries.
In the new situation where quantitative data are based on initial testing procedure (ITP) and are originating from different anti-doping laboratories, harmonised methodologies and uniform reporting are prerequisites for the steroid profiling.
Current registry annual reports that include comparative evaluations, however, are not harmonised in terms of methods and reporting.
In order to improve ADR reporting, the reporting of pharmacovigilance activities in Uganda needs to be simplified and harmonised with the current electronic reporting systems for the public health programmes and the health management information systems.
