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Rapid Measles Exposure Assessment in an Urban Emergency Department Using a Syndromic Surveillance System

Rapid Measles Exposure Assessment in an Urban Emergency Department Using a Syndromic Surveillance System

Rapid Measles Exposure Assessment in an Urban Emergency Department Using a Syndromic Surveillance System

Authors of this article:

Christopher Sikora1 ;   Kerri Fournier2 ;   Hussain Usman2 ;   Angela Jacobs2 ;   Bryan Wicentowich2 ;   James Talbot3
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    The Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Public Health unit was alerted to an individual with measles in the Emergency Department. To find contacts, Public Health used a manual lookup of hospital records and piloted a time-based automated data query through the syndromic surveillance system, ARTSSN. The completeness and time needed, for both methods were compared. The ARTSSN patient list had 137 contacts compared to 108 from the manual method. Less time was needed for the ARTSSN list. This automated method is valuable in investigating geographic and time-defined Communicable Disease outbreaks as well as potential chemical or radiological exposures.