ArticleEpidemiology and infection2014
A concept for routine emergency-care data-based syndromic surveillance in Europe.
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- The effectiveness of syndromic surveillance for the early detection of waterborne outbreaks: a systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Syndromic surveillance systems to detect outbreaks of gastroenteritis in high-income countries: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Establishing and validating syndromic surveillance of gastrointestinal infections using routine emergency department data, Germany, 2019-2023.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Utility of emergency call centre, dispatch and ambulance data for syndromic surveillance of infectious diseases: a scoping review.European journal of public health · 2020Article
- Ambulance dispatch calls attributable to influenza A and other common respiratory viruses in the Netherlands (2014-2016).Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2020Article
- A methodological framework for the evaluation of syndromic surveillance systems: a case study of England.BMC public health · 2018Article
- What is the utility of using syndromic surveillance systems during large subnational infectious gastrointestinal disease outbreaks? An observational study using case studies from the past 5 years in England.Epidemiology and infection · 2016Observational
- National and Regional Representativeness of Hospital Emergency Department Visit Data in the National Syndromic Surveillance Program, United States, 2014.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2016Article
- Why and when citizens call for emergency help: an observational study of 211,193 medical emergency calls.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2015Observational
- Meeting the International Health Regulations (2005) surveillance core capacity requirements at the subnational level in Europe: the added value of syndromic surveillance.BMC public health · 2015Article
- An Evaluation of Syndromic Surveillance-Related Practices Among Selected State and Local Health Agencies.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMPArticle
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Abstract
We developed a syndromic surveillance (SyS) concept using emergency dispatch, ambulance and emergency-department data from different European countries. Based on an inventory of sub-national emergency data availability in 12 countries, we propose framework definitions for specific syndromes and a SyS system design. We tested the concept by retrospectively applying cumulative sum and spatio-temporal cluster analyses for the detection of local gastrointestinal outbreaks in four countries and comparing the results with notifiable disease reporting. Routine emergency data was available daily and electronically in 11 regions, following a common structure. We identified two gastrointestinal outbreaks in two countries; one was confirmed as a norovirus outbreak. We detected 1/147 notified outbreaks. Emergency-care data-based SyS can supplement local surveillance with near real-time information on gastrointestinal patients, especially in special circumstances, e.g. foreign tourists. It most likely cannot detect the majority of local gastrointestinal outbreaks with few, mild or dispersed cases.
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