Syndromic Surveillance and Bioterrorism-related Epidemics

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. Whether this approach is likely to detect an epidemic sooner than reporting...

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Vydáno v:Emerging infectious diseases Ročník 9; číslo 10; s. 1197 - 1204
Hlavní autoři: Buehler, James W., Berkelman, Ruth L., Hartley, David M., Peters, Clarence J.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.10.2003
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Témata:
Analysis
Anthrax - diagnosis
Anthrax - epidemiology
Bioterrorism
Botulism - diagnosis
Botulism - epidemiology
Disease Outbreaks
Health care industry
Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral - diagnosis
Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral - epidemiology
Humans
Plague - diagnosis
Plague - epidemiology
Population Surveillance - methods
Safety and security measures
Seasons
Smallpox - diagnosis
Smallpox - epidemiology
Syndrome
Tularemia - diagnosis
Tularemia - epidemiology
United States
ISSN:1080-6040, 1080-6059
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Shrnutí: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. Whether this approach is likely to detect an epidemic sooner than reporting by alert clinicians remains unknown. The detection of a bioterrorism-related epidemic will depend on population characteristics, availability and use of health services, the nature of an attack, epidemiologic features of individual diseases, surveillance methods, and the capacity of health departments to respond to alerts. Predicting how these factors will combine in a bioterrorism attack may be impossible. Nevertheless, understanding their likely effect on epidemic detection should help define the usefulness of syndromic surveillance and identify approaches to increasing the likelihood that clinicians recognize and report an epidemic.
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ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid0910.030231