Using public health scenarios to predict the utility of a national syndromic surveillance programme during the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 984-993

  Morbey, R A ^a   Elliot, A J ^a   Charlett, A ^b   Ibbotson, S ^c   Verlander, N Q ^b   Leach, S ^c   Hall, I ^c   Barrass, I ^c   Catchpole, M ^a   Mccloskey, B ^d   Said, B ^e   Walsh, A ^e   Pebody, R ^d   Smith, G E ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b Modelling and Economics Unit Public Health England   (United Kingdom)

^c Real time Syndromic Surveillance Team   (United Kingdom)

^d HPA   (United Kingdom)

^e Public Health England   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioterrorism; Cryptosporidium; influenza; public health; surveillance system

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BOTULISM; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIC; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS STRAIN; WATER CONTAMINATION; DIARRHEA; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GAME; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; OLYMPIC GAMES; PARALYMPIC GAMES; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE; VOMITING;

SCOMBROTOXIN; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LONDON; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SPORTS; TIME FACTORS; VOMITING;

EID: 84897057895     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095026881300188X     Document Type: Article

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