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

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 303-313

  Andersson, T ^a,b,c   Bjelkmar, P ^a,d   Hulth, A ^a   Lindh, J ^a,e   Stenmark, S ^d,f   Widerstrom M ^f  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b National Food Agency (SLV)   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Inera AB ^*  (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Foodborne infections; outbreaks; statistics; syndromic surveillance; waterborne infections

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY EVENT DETECTION; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; OVER THE COUNTER PHARMACY SALE; PHARMACY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SWEDEN; TELENURSING; TELEPHONE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER INTOXICATION; WEB BROWSER; ADULT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; GASTROENTERITIS; INTERNET; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIDIARRHEALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SWEDEN; TELEPHONE; TRIAGE;

EID: 84894292563     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813001088     Document Type: Article

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