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Presentations, Abstracts, or Demonstrations (740) Surveillance Methods in Population and Public Health (111)

Published on in Vol 5, No 1 (2013):

Syndromic Surveillance for Outbreak Detection and Investigation

Syndromic Surveillance for Outbreak Detection and Investigation

Syndromic Surveillance for Outbreak Detection and Investigation

Authors of this article:

Tom Andersson1 ;   Pär Bjelkmar2 ;   Anette Hulth3 ;   Johan Lindh3 ;   Stephan Stenmark4 ;   Mikael Widerström5
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    For the purpose of developing a national system of outbreak surveillance, we compared local outbreak signals in three sources of syndromic data: telephone triage of acute gastroenteritis, web queries about symptoms of gastrointestinal illness, and OTC pharmacy sales of anti-diarrhea medication. The sensitivity and specificity were highest for telephone triage data. It provided the most promising source of syndromic data for surveillance of point-source outbreaks. Currently, a project has been initialized to develop and implement a national system in Sweden for daily syndromic surveillance based on 1177 Health Care Direct, supporting regional and local outbreak detection and investigation.