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Describing the indirect impact of COVID-19 on healthcare utilisation using syndromic surveillance systems

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Since the end of January 2020, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been responsible for a global health crisis. In England a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions have been introduced throughout the pandemic, including guidelines on ...
Claire F. Ferraro, Lucy Findlater, Roger Morbey, Helen E. Hughes, Sally Harcourt, Thomas C. Hughes, Alex J. Elliot, Isabel Oliver, Gillian E. Smith   +8 more
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The Epidemiology of Chickenpox in England, 2016–2022: An Observational Study Using General Practitioner Consultations

Viruses, 2023
Chickenpox is a common childhood disease caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV). VZV vaccination is not part of the UK childhood immunisation programme, but its potential inclusion is regularly assessed.
Megan Bardsley, Paul Loveridge, Natalia G. Bednarska, Sue Smith, Roger A. Morbey, Gayatri Amirthalingam, William H. Elson, Chris Bates, Simon de Lusignan, Daniel Todkill, Alex J. Elliot   +10 more
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Syndromic surveillance in COVID-19 pandemic control: experience and comparison among countries

Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2023
Syndromic surveillance is a critical component of intelligent warning and multi-point event-triggered mechanism for surveillance on public health emergency.
Xiaowen WANG, Xiaoyi QIU, Lizhong DUAN
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Revisiting Non-specific Syndromic Surveillance [PDF]

, 2021
Infectious disease surveillance is of great importance for the prevention of major outbreaks. Syndromic surveillance aims at developing algorithms which can detect outbreaks as early as possible by monitoring data sources which allow to capture the occurrences of a certain disease.
Moritz Kulessa, Eneldo Loza Mencía, Johannes Fürnkranz   +2 more
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Emergency department syndromic surveillance systems: a systematic review

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Syndromic surveillance provides public health intelligence to aid in early warning and monitoring of public health impacts (e.g. seasonal influenza), or reassurance when an impact has not occurred.
Helen E. Hughes, Obaghe Edeghere, Sarah J. O’Brien, Roberto Vivancos, Alex J. Elliot   +4 more
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A Unifying Framework and Comparative Evaluation of Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches to Non-Specific Syndromic Surveillance

Computers, 2021
Monitoring the development of infectious diseases is of great importance for the prevention of major outbreaks. Syndromic surveillance aims at developing algorithms which can detect outbreaks as early as possible by monitoring data sources which allow to
Moritz Kulessa, Eneldo Loza Mencía, Johannes Fürnkranz   +2 more
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Correcting for day of the week and public holiday effects: improving a national daily syndromic surveillance service for detecting public health threats

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background As service provision and patient behaviour varies by day, healthcare data used for public health surveillance can exhibit large day of the week effects. These regular effects are further complicated by the impact of public holidays.
Elizabeth Buckingham-Jeffery, Roger Morbey, Thomas House, Alex J. Elliot, Sally Harcourt, Gillian E. Smith   +5 more
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Environmental factors associated with general practitioner consultations for allergic rhinitis in London, England: a retrospective time series analysis

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives To identify key predictors of general practitioner (GP) consultations for allergic rhinitis (AR) using meteorological and environmental data.Design A retrospective, time series analysis of GP consultations for AR.Setting A large GP ...
Roger Morbey, Obaghe Edeghere, Gillian Smith, Alex J Elliot, Andre Charlett, Shakoor Hajat, Dan Todkill, Felipe de Jesus Colon Gonzalez, Sari Kovats, Nicholas J Osborne, Rachel McInnes, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Karen Exley   +12 more
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Syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness in Scotland during the influenza A H1N1v pandemic and beyond [PDF]

, 2012
Syndromic surveillance refers to the rapid monitoring of syndromic data to highlight and follow outbreaks of infectious diseases, increasing situational awareness.
Box, Buckeridge, Burkom, Centers for Disease Control Working Group, Elliot, Elliot, Farrington, Farrington, Fleischauer, General Register Office for Scotland, Health Protection Agency and Health Protection Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, Heffernan, Holt, Jones, Meyer, R Development Core Team, Robertson, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Television, Shmueli, Smith, Sonesson, Unkel, van den Wijngaard, Winters   +35 more
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Sustaining surveillance: Evaluating syndromic surveillance in the Pacific [PDF]

Global Public Health, 2012
Prior to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) had agreed to develop a standardised, simple syndromic surveillance system to ensure compliance with International Health Regulations requirements (rapid outbreak detection, information sharing and response to outbreaks). In October 2010, the new system was introduced
Paterson, Beverley J., Kool, Jacob L., Durrheim, David N., Pavlin, Boris   +3 more
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