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From Fax to Secure File Transfer Protocol: The 25-Year Evolution of Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance in England

Journal of Medical Internet Research
The purpose of syndromic surveillance is to provide early warning of public health incidents, real-time situational awareness during incidents and emergencies, and reassurance of the lack of impact on the population, particularly during mass ...
Alex J Elliot, Helen E Hughes, Sally E Harcourt, Sue Smith, Paul Loveridge, Roger A Morbey, Amardeep Bains, Obaghe Edeghere, Natalia R Jones, Daniel Todkill, Gillian E Smith   +10 more
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Assessing Commitment and Reporting Fidelity to a Text Message-Based Participatory Surveillance in Rural Western Uganda. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Syndromic surveillance, the collection of symptom data from individuals prior to or in the absence of diagnosis, is used throughout the developed world to provide rapid indications of outbreaks and unusual patterns of disease.
James Lester, Sarah Paige, Colin A Chapman, Mhairi Gibson, James Holland Jones, William M Switzer, Nelson Ting, Tony L Goldberg, Simon D W Frost   +8 more
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Innovative Uses for Syndromic Surveillance

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
To determine if expanded queries can be used to identify specific reportable diseases/conditions not detected by using automated syndrome categories, we developed new categories to use with the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of
Erin K. O’Connell, Guoyan Zhang, Fermin Leguen, Anthoni Llau, Edhelene Rico   +4 more
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Syndromic Surveillance in Bioterrorist Attacks

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005
The article by Nordin et al. (1) in this issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases describes the use of syndromic surveillance to detect inhalational anthrax resulting from a hypothetical covert release of Bacillus anthracis spores at a major shopping mall.
Arnold F. Kaufmann, Nicki Pesik, Martin I. Meltzer   +2 more
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Syndromic Surveillance and Bioterrorism-related Epidemics

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003
To facilitate rapid detection of a future bioterrorist attack, an increasing number of public health departments are investing in new surveillance systems that target the early manifestations of bioterrorism-related disease.
James W. Buehler, Ruth L. Berkelman, David M. Hartley, Clarence J. Peters   +3 more
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Monitoring Public Health Through a Comprehensive Primary Care Database in the Netherlands: Overview of the Nivel Syndromic Surveillance System

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
BackgroundSyndromic surveillance systems are crucial for the monitoring of population health and the early detection of emerging health problems. Internationally, there are numerous established systems reporting on different types of data.
Christos Baliatsas, Jojanneke van Summeren, Sander van Beusekom, Amy Matser, Mariette Hooiveld   +4 more
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Preferred Workflows for Syndromic Surveillance Systems [PDF]

, 2009
Workflows are a sequence of information processing operations that people carry out to meet certain in-formational goals [1]. Using various user-centered design (UCD) techniques we uncovered the workflows that epidemiologists wished to follow when using ...
Guthrie, Glenn, Moore, Kieran, Vinson, Norman G.   +2 more
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Syndromic Surveillance Tracks COVID-19 Cases in University and County Settings: Retrospective Observational Study

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
BackgroundSyndromic surveillance represents a potentially inexpensive supplement to test-based COVID-19 surveillance. By strengthening surveillance of COVID-19–like illness (CLI), targeted and rapid interventions can be facilitated that prevent COVID-19 ...
Lily Minh Wass, Derek O'Keeffe Hoare, Georgia Elena Smits, Marwan Osman, Ning Zhang, William Klepack, Lara Parrilla, Jefferson M Busche, Marin E Clarkberg, Sumanta Basu, Casey L Cazer   +10 more
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Monitoring COVID-19 in Belgian general practice: A tool for syndromic surveillance based on electronic health records [PDF]

European Journal of General Practice
Background COVID-19 may initially manifest as flu-like symptoms. As such, general practitioners (GPs) will likely to play an important role in monitoring the pandemic through syndromic surveillance.Objectives To present a COVID-19 syndromic surveillance ...
Bénédicte Vos, Laura Debouverie, Kris Doggen, Nicolas Delvaux, Bert Aertgeerts, Robrecht De Schreye, Bert Vaes   +6 more
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Simulated Anthrax Attacks and Syndromic Surveillance

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005
We measured sensitivity and timeliness of a syndromic surveillance system to detect bioterrorism events. A hypothetical anthrax release was modeled by using zip code population data, mall customer surveys, and membership information from HealthPartners ...
James D. Nordin, Michael J. Goodman, Martin Kulldorff, Debra P. Ritzwoller, Allyson M. Abrams, Ken Kleinman, Mary Jeanne Levitt, James Donahue, Richard Platt   +8 more
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