Evaluation of Syndromic Surveillance in the Netherlands: Its Added Value and Recommendations for Implementation

In the last decade, syndromic surveillance has increasingly been used worldwide for detecting increases or outbreaks of infectious diseases that might be missed by surveillance based on laboratory diagnoses and notifications by clinicians alone. There is, however, an ongoing debate about the feasibility of syndromic surveillance and its potential added value. Here we present our perspective on syndromic surveillance, based on the results of a retrospective analysis of syndromic data from six Dutch healthcare registries, covering 1999–2009 or part of this period. These registries had been desig... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Wijngaard, C.C. (Cees) van den
Pelt, W. (Wilfred) van
Nagelkerke, N.J.D. (Nico)
Kretzschmar, M.E.E. (Mirjam)
Koopmans D.V.M., M.P.G. (Marion)
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://repub.eur.nl/pub/87218