ReviewJournal of epidemiology and community health2006
Review of syndromic surveillance: implications for waterborne disease detection.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effectiveness of syndromic surveillance for the early detection of waterborne outbreaks: a systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Drug sales data analysis for outbreak detection of infectious diseases: a systematic literature review.BMC infectious diseases · 2014Pooled it
- Syndromic surveillance systems to detect outbreaks of gastroenteritis in high-income countries: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2026Article
- AI-aided geometric design of anti-infection catheters.Science advances · 2024Article
- A One Health real-time surveillance system for nowcastingEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2022Article
- Is clinical primary care surveillance for tularaemia a useful addition to laboratory surveillance? An analysis of notification data for Finland, 2013 to 2019.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2022Article
- Syndromic Surveillance of Acute Gastroenteritis Using the French Health Insurance Database: Discriminatory Algorithm and Drug Prescription Practices Evaluations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Evaluation of the trends in the incidence of infectious diseases using the syndromic surveillance system, early warning and response unit, Mongolia, from 2009 to 2017: a retrospective descriptive multi-year analytical study.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Automated influenza case detection for public health surveillance and clinical diagnosis using dynamic influenza prevalence method.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2018Article
- Evaluation of a national pharmacy-based syndromic surveillance system.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2015Article
- A large community outbreak of gastroenteritis associated with consumption of drinking water contaminated by river water, Belgium, 2010.Epidemiology and infection · 2015Article
- A Study of Failure Events in Drinking Water Systems As a Basis for Comparison and Evaluation of the Efficacy of Potable Reuse Schemes.Environmental health insights · 2015Article
- European monitoring systems and data for assessing environmental and climate impacts on human infectious diseases.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014Article
- Syndromic surveillance for local outbreak detection and awareness: evaluating outbreak signals of acute gastroenteritis in telephone triage, web-based queries and over-the-counter pharmacy sales.Epidemiology and infection · 2014Article
- Estimating the prevalence of potential enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and intimin gene diversity in a human community by monitoring sanitary sewage.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2014Article
- Comprehensive analysis of prokaryotes in environmental water using DNA microarray analysis and whole genome amplification.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2013Article
- Monitoring data quality in syndromic surveillance: learnings from a resource limited setting.Journal of global infectious diseases · 2012Article
- Establishing a web-based integrated surveillance system for early detection of infectious disease epidemic in rural China: a field experimental study.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2012Article
- Redefining syndromic surveillance.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2011Review
- Geographic boundary analysis in spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology: perspective and prospects.Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology · 2010Article
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Abstract
Syndromic surveillance is the gathering of data for public health purposes before laboratory or clinically confirmed information is available. Interest in syndromic surveillance has increased because of concerns about bioterrorism. In addition to bioterrorism detection, syndromic surveillance may be suited to detecting waterborne disease outbreaks. Theoretical benefits of syndromic surveillance include potential timeliness, increased response capacity, ability to establish baseline disease burdens, and ability to delineate the geographical reach of an outbreak. This review summarises the evidence gathered from retrospective, prospective, and simulation studies to assess the efficacy of syndromic surveillance for waterborne disease detection. There is little evidence that syndromic surveillance mitigates the effects of disease outbreaks through earlier detection and response. Syndromic surveillance should not be implemented at the expense of traditional disease surveillance, and should not be relied upon as a principal outbreak detection tool. The utility of syndromic surveillance is dependent on alarm thresholds that can be evaluated in practice. Syndromic data sources such as over the counter drug sales for detection of waterborne outbreaks should be further evaluated.
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